Katherine Raydonna Biles, age 82, passed away on Monday, September 26, 2022 at Adair Village in Clinton, Missouri. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM on Friday September, 30, 2022 at the Vansant-Mills Chapel in Clinton, Missouri with visitation one hour prior to the service. Memorial contributions can be made to the Diabetes Association and can be left in care of the funeral home.

Katherine Raydonna (Miller) Biles was born on June 30, 1940, she was the second daughter and fifth of six children to Chester Miller and Martha (Swearngin) Miller, in Benton County, Missouri.

She attended Union School, in a one room school the first six years of school, then attended and graduated from Lincoln High School in Lincoln, Missouri, graduating in 1958. At the age of 13 she accepted Christ as her savior and became a member of Hickory Chapel Church and never moved her membership even though she visited in other church homes.

After graduation she worked at The Farms Bank of Lincoln as a secretary and part time bank teller. She also worked a short time at The Southside Bank in Kansas City, Mo..  Wanting to pursue a career in the medical field she returned to this area and enrolled in a lab and x-ray program at the General Hospital. During her time at General Hospital, she met and fell in love with Elton S. Biles. She and Elton were married on December 24, 1963, in Fort Worth, Texas. From this marriage came Thomas Elton Biles, Robert Eugene Biles and Martha Ellen (Biles) James. She emotionally adopted Eltons two daughters by a previous marriage, Cherry Ann (Biles) Jolly and Neva Marie (Biles) Graves. She helped establish and operate Biles Salvage before she and Elton were divorced in September 1973.

In August 1979 she married Donald Lee Wallace. There were no children born in this marriage, and she and Mr. Wallace were divorced in September 1992.

During her lifetime she worked in many different occupations besides the salvage business and the banking experience and lab and x-ray technician, including secretary to a couple of attorneys, nurses aide at Wetzel Hospital, telephone sales, part time telephone operator, child caregiver, school bus driver and cashier for The 52 Drive In Theater and The Crest Theater.

She was a charter member of Golden Valley Auxiliary Fraternal Order of Eagles #3667 in Clinton, Mo. and was an officer there for over 30 years.

In her later years she enjoyed performing for Heartland Community Theater, and C.A.S.T., two local community theaters. She was also a board member of Heartland Community Theater.

She loved life and people in general and will be missed by those lives that she touched, both in person and with her writing, writing for the Missouri Chigger.

Preceding her in death was both of her previous husbands, her parents, her son, Robert Eugene Biles, stepdaughter, Neva Marie (Biles) Graves, three brothers, Phillip Eugene (Gene) Miller, Freddie Bernard (Fred) Miller, Lloyd Vern (Bud) Miller, one sister, Peggy L. (Miller) Evans, one granddaughter, Kristy Taylor.

She is survived by her two children, Thomas Biles, and Martha James, her grandchildren, and great grandchildren, her sister Sharon Winona  Dillon, and also many relatives, friends and acquaintances.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Vansant-Mills Funeral Home in Clinton, Missouri.