Funeral services for Cleone Miles, age 90 of Meadow, will be held at 2:00pm Friday, April 6, at the First Presbyterian Church in Bison. Florence Hoff will officiate with burial in Gallaway Cemetery at Meadow.


A family service will be held at 11:30am on Friday at the First Presbyterian Church in Bison.


Special music for the service will be provided by Joyce Aukland, organist. Christel, Stephanie, Nicole Miles, Jolene Hopperdietzel, and all relatives, neighbors, and friends are considered honorary bearers. Active casketbearers are Cam, Wesley, Clint, Bill Miles; Rocky Delker; Clayton and Doug Doan; and Randy Diebert.


SARAH CLEONE ATKINSON "Cleone" was born March 7, 1917 at Meadow, SD to Benjamin Harrison and Julia Ann (Smith) Atkinson. She attended school at Chance and East Chance and at an early age began working with her parents on the farm. Cleone was united in marriage to Kenneth Wayne Miles on November 16, 1936 at Dupree, SD. They moved to the Kane place southeast of Meadow in the spring of 1939 where they farmed, raised sheep and cattle throughout the years. In the fall of 2000, due to health reasons, they went to stay at their daughter's home in Rapid City. Kenneth passed away on January 11, 2001, and Cleone continued to live in Rapid City. She passed from this life early Monday morning, April 2, at her daughter's home at the age of 90 years, 25 days.


She was a member of the Meadow Community Presbyterian Church, Thunder Butte Homemakers Extension Club, and was a leader of the Rough and Ready 4-H Club for over 25 years. She also served on the Grand Central School Board. Cleone enjoyed working on family geneology and doing embroidery work.


Surviving family members include her daughter and son-in-law, Arlene and Dale Delker, Rapid City, SD; 2 sons and daughters-in-law, Norman and Shelby Miles, Meadow, SD; Gerald and Edith Miles, Spearfish, SD; 8 grandchildren, Christel, Wesley, and Stephanie Miles; Jolene and husband Gordon Hopperdietzel; Rocky and wife Kelly Delker; Cam, Clint, and Nicole Miles; 9 great grandchildren, Jennifer Gaaskjolen; Conner, Fallon, Turner, and Brian Miles; Victoria and Rachael Hopperdietzel; Melissa and Abby Delker; 5 adopted grandchildren, Tom, Liz, Linda, Anthony, Dimitri Delker.


She was preceded in death by her parents, 1 infant sister Sadie; 5 grandsons, Stephen, Albert, Spencer, Shawn, and Andrew Delker.


Visitation will be Thursday from 1:00 to 7:00pm at the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon and on Friday 11:30 to 2:00pm at the First Presbyterian Church in Bison.