June 8, 1945 - May 21, 2020
A rescheduled celebration of life service will be held for Sharon Lind at the Timber Lake Community Center on Friday, June 25, 2021 at 3:30 p.m. MT followed by light refreshments.
Sharon K. Lind, 74, died after a year-long battle with cancer on May 21, 2020, at her daughter Tahni’s family home in Minnesota where she had been residing.
She was born on June 8, 1945 in Mobridge, the daughter of Russell and Mary Anderson.
Sharon graduated from Timber Lake High School in 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. 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, then became Dewey County Treasurer, the youngest-ever elected county treasurer in the state. In 1977, the family moved to Gillette, WY, where Sharon worked as a 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 Timber Lake in 1990 and began The Prairie Rose. She also had a store called Heartstrings & Angelwings.
Sharon married Leonard Lind (deceased) and later married Edward Lind of Omak, WA. She lived in Washington for 10 years, where she became grandma to Ed’s grandchildren and enfolded into his family and community. There she opened a final gift store and cafe, Peace Cafe, in partnership with her sister.
Sharon was 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, “She listened to their hearts.”
In addition to her parents and her Auntie, she was preceded in death by brothers Gordon and Richard Anderson 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 and many nieces and nephews. Her sister Rosannah Stone passed away six months after Sharon, in November 2020) In lieu of flowers, the family will make a memorial cash donation to Timber Lake & Area Historical Society and Museum.
(Tahni Cullen’s address is 6137 151st St. N, Hugo, MN 55038.)