Milton Jeffries

Milton  J. Jeffries, 61, of Eagle Butte, made his journey to the spirit world on Friday, July 25, 2025, near Hurdsfield, ND, due to the results of an automobile accident. 

Funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m. MDT, Monday, August 4, 2025, at C-EB Auditorium, Eagle Butte. Burial will follow in the Eagle Butte Cemetery. A wake service will be 7:00 p.m., Sunday, August 3, 2025, at the auditorium, with a procession from the 4-Mile at 4:00 p.m. 

Milton is survived by brothers: Mahlon Jeffries and Waylon Jeffries; sisters: Cathy Jeffries, Karen Jeffries (Ken Birkland,) Della Jeffries (Cyril Martinmaas), Debbie Jeffries, Lonnie Jeffries (Michael Ball), Raylene Marshall (Hunka sister); kids: Amanda Lebeau-Lewis, Thane Jeffries, Austin Jeffries, Nikki Jeffries, and Clay Jeffries; and grandchildren. 

Milton grew up in Dupree, SD, and graduated from Eagle Butte, SD. He enjoyed playing sports throughout his life. Basketball, softball, horseshoes, corn hole, and darts. Also, he loved to fish and hunt. He was good at almost everything he did.   Traveled everywhere for all the sports he enjoyed. He won a lot of awards throughout his life doing what he loved. 

He was a tribal program director for many years, a valued heavy equipment operator for the government who assisted in maintaining many miles of tribal roadways, and he played softball for many seasons with the team Prairie Phoenix, which won many championships. In the year 2000, he was an SD State Dart Team Champion in the A division.

Milton was preceded in death by his mother, Corrine White Weasel-Janis; father, Frank Jeffries; grandparents: Oscar and Ester (Ward) White Weasel, Mahlon Oscar Jeffries. Jenny (Drury) Jeffries; Uncles: Timothy White Weasel and Louie White Weasel; nephews: Kyle Jeffries, Wade Jeffries, Quentin Lecompte, and Kelly Gene Clown.

Luce Funeral Home of Gettysburg has been entrusted with Milton’s arrangements.