Walking on: Devere (Two Stars) Tucker Eastman

Devere Tucker Eastman

Also known as: Two Stars

(Sunrise) July 27, 1980 – (Sunset) Sept. 13, 2025

Tribal member Devere (Two Stars) Tucker Eastman passed away Sept. 13, 2025, at the age of 45.

Two Stars Eastman was born to Perri McDaniel and Daniel T. Eastman (preceded him in death) in Klamath Falls, Oregon. He was the grandson of Carlton Duane McDaniel and Shirley Ann Parazoo, and of Devere Brave Buffalo Eastman and Lorraine Highpine-Eastman. All grandparents preceded him in death.

For most of his childhood, Two Stars lived in Vancouver, Washington. His grandmother, Shirley, moved the family there a few years before he was born. She said she wanted to live in Vancouver, because it was the traditional ancestral home of her Tchinouk people.

Two Stars was the seventh generation of descendants of Chief Kiesno of the Cathlapotle Village in Vancouver, Washington. Two Stars attended Evergreen High School until the family moved to Grand Ronde in 1998. He then attended Willamina High School his senior year.

Two Stars was a hardworking man who started working at the young age of 15. He worked several different jobs at Spirit Mountain Casino starting from when he was still in  high school. He worked as a DMO, then moved on to pantry steward, shipping and receiving, groundskeeping, maintenance and as a table games dealer for the past eight years. In between working at the casino, he worked construction, helping to build the first phase of Elder housing, the Tribal plankhouse and different remodel phases of the casino.

Two Stars was a talented flute player. He played his flute in the break room at work where many of his co-workers enjoyed his music. He was a skilled wood carver, always working on decorative canoe paddles, flutes and different things. He was also a great carpenter, even building his own blackjack table for his “man cave,” where he also worked out regularly.

Two Stars loved kayaking and was always going on different adventures exploring new rivers and streams, and rock hounding along the way. He loved playing with his remote-control cars and boats, and was always tinkering with them, repairing them and trying to make them better and faster.

He was so much more than words like kind, caring, giving, generous, courageous, loving, wise, thoughtful, considerate, handsome, strong and bold can express. He was a beautiful soul and an amazing human being. 

Two Stars is survived by his mother, Perri McDaniel; son, Dyami Two Stars Eastman; daughter, Dyshani Eastman; brothers, Eagle Eastman, Highpine Eastman and Buffalo Horse Eastman; and sisters, Luta Eastman and Delia Sanchez.

On his father’s side he is survived by his Lakota Sioux relatives from Rosebud, South Dakota: Auntie, Geraldine Eastman and uncles, Dominic Eastman and Todd Eastman. His uncle David preceded him in death, as did his Walking Eagle uncles from Pine Ridge, South Dakota: Clarene, Buzz and Kenney Walking Eagle. Their children, too numerous to list, survive Two Stars.

On his mother’s side, he is survived by his uncle Victor McDaniel of Klamath Falls; his aunties, Ann, Pam and Lorraine McDaniel, all of Grand Ronde, Oregon, and their children, all his brother/sister cousins too numerous to list; the mother of his children, Dara Dickinson; her sister, Deann Dickinson, whose children he also helped to raise; and Erin Case who became a close, trusted friend and confidant.

Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Tribal gym, followed by a meal at the Tribal Community Center.

Macy & Son Funeral Directors of McMinnville assisted the family.