Sonya Miles

Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Sonya Miles

CHARLESTON, Mo. — Sonya Marie Wallace Miles, 61, affectionately known as “Sandra,” resident of Charleston, died Aug. 27, 2021, in Sikeston, Missouri.

She was born June 9, 1960, in Wyatt, Missouri, to Evelyn Wallace and the late John Oscar Miller Jr.    
She was a 1978 graduate of Charleston High School in Charleston.  
In 1993, she was united in marriage to Willie Miles, who survives of the home.
She is preceded in death by her father, John Oscar Miller Jr.; her maternal grandparents who raised her, Reverend Ernest and Safrona Wallace; her sister, Joyce Riley; her brother-in-law, Richard Miles Sr.; her great-aunt, Sarah Akins; and her niece, Shay Bellamy.
She is survived by her husband, Willie Miles of Charleston; her mother, Evelyn Wallace of Kansas City; her mother-in-law, Jullie Boldes of Charleston, her children Adrein (Annette) Wallace, Cartez Wallace, Tanisha (Lawrence) Roberts, and WyKeshia (William) Atkins, 16 sisters, nine brothers, two sisters-in-law, her grandchildren, Aiden Wallace, Talaiyah Wallace, Cartez Wallace Jr., LaPaige Hughes, Cortney Triblett, Sydni Atkins, Adrein Wallace, Jr., and a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, “bonus” siblings, children, and grandchildren and friends.

Friends may call Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, from 11 a.m. until the funeral hour of noon at Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church with Pastor Arthur Cassell officiating.

Interment will follow in Oak Grove Cemetery with the Williams Funeral Homes of Charleston in charge of arrangements.