Sandra Kay Kitchens | 1950 - 2023
Obituaries-Pierre / Posted Jan 3, 2024 | 3:57 PM / 288 views
PIERRE, SD –
Sandra Kitchens, 73, of Pierre, SD passed away Thursday, December 28, 2023 at her home in Pierre.
Funeral service will be at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at Isburg Funeral Chapel in Pierre. Visitation will be for one hour prior to the service.
Burial will be in Scotty Philip cemetery in Fort Pierre, SD.
Sandra Kay Kitchens was born on August 22, 1950, at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Pierre, South Dakota. She was the second child born to Elsie (Wood) and Robert Dickinson. Sandra loved Jesus at an early age, and by the 1980’s she was attending Calvary Temple in Salem, Oregon as a single mother to three children: Kim, Jeremiah and Ezra. Also in Salem, she obtained her GED at Chemeketa Community College. Later in life she attended Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota.
Sandra loved poetry from an early age and spent her life composing poems. She always said she was just a conduit through which her poetry flowed. She even published some poetry in the Rapid City Journal.
Sandra moved about during her lifetime, spending her teen years through her thirties in Oregon, her forties and fifties in South Dakota, her sixties in Arizona, and her last four years back in South Dakota. Always a follower of Jesus, while in Arizona, she attended Pastor Larry Winchester’s prayer meetings on Wednesdays. She always prayed for her family, including her eldest son Tim and his clan. Her favorite prayer was Psalm 91 (which she used to pray over her son Jeremiah when he was young). Later in life he returned the favor until her passing on December 28, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. She will be missed immensely by her family.
Sandra is survived by her children: Tim Clark, Kimberly Jones, Jeremiah Clark and Ezra Clark; grandchildren: Austin Ensworth, Dawsin Jones, Lawsin Jones, Samantha Clark, Kenzley Clark, Haley Clark, Sarah Sutherland, Lena Zsoche, Alisabeth Clark, Johnny Clark, Victoria Bartlett and Tim Clark Jr., in addition to thirteen great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her father and mother, older sister Roberta Stevens and grandson, Paydin Jones.
