Celebration of Life Services for Sharon Kay (Dikoff) Lind, will be at 3:30 PM, Friday, June 25, 2021, at the Timber Lake Community Center. Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge is in charge of arrangements.

Sharon K. Lind, 74, died after a yearlong battle with cancer on May 21, 2020, at her daughter, Tahni's family home in Minnesota where she has been residing for the past year.

Sharon was born on June 8, 1945, at the Mobridge Regional Hospital in Mobridge, SD, the daughter of Russell and Mary Anderson and one of six siblings.

Sharon graduated from Timber Lake High School, class of 1962. Following graduation, she married her high school sweetheart (they were homecoming king and queen), Kenneth D. Dikoff. They were married for 38 years until his passing in 1999 in Timber Lake, having spent several winters in Phoenix, Arizona with their sons' families. They parented three children, Kenneth (Dean) Jr., Shane and Tahni, and had four grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Sharon was a librarian for a time after graduation until she became the youngest ever elected county treasurer in the state of South Dakota for Dewey County. The family then moved in 19977 from Timber Lake, SD, to Gillette, WY, where Sharon continued as secretary/bookkeeper until she ignited her artistic passion, creatively expressing herself through oil painting, sewing award winning dolls, making handcrafted wooden gifts, and launching into entrepreneurship of various craft fair and gift shop ventures including Green Tree Creations. She moved back to her hometown of Timber Lake in 1990 to begin the gift store, The Prairie Rose. She also had a store called Heartstrings & Angelwings.

Sharon married Leonard Lind (deceased) and later married Edward Lind of Omak, Washington. She moved to Washington for 10 years where she became grandma to Ed's grandchildren and enfolded into his family and community. She opened a final gift store and café there in partnership with her sister called Peace Café.

Sharon was well known as a woman of deep faith and ever-ready prayer. She had the open ears to listen and the open arms to love just about anybody who crossed her path in need of a friend and confidante. Her lips were always filled with praise, her wisdom always given in humility, and her vision always raised up above life's difficult circumstances. She was a minister without a title and Bible teacher to probably thousands in her lifetime. When asked what she might want on her headstone, she simply said it all: "She listened to their hearts."

In addition to her parents and her Auntie, she was preceded in death by brothers Gordon and Richard and husbands Ken, Leonard, and Ed, and son Kenneth Dean.

Surviving are her son, Shane of Surprise, AZ, and daughter, Tahni Cullen and her husband, Joe, of Hugo, MN and their families; brothers, Boyd and John Anderson, sister, Rosannah Stone (who also passed away November 2020) and many nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, the family will make a memorial cash donation to Timber Lake Historical Society and Museum.