Funeral Service for Bernadette Delores Mockicin will be held on Friday, May 27, 2022 at 1:00 P.M. at the Enemy Swim Community Center, Enemy Swim, SD with Pastor Amos Roberts and Pastor Jack Benjamin officiating. Pallbearers will be Dayzon Soldier, Caleb Johnson, Isaiah Soldier, Jerred Eagle, Fletcher Eagle, Michael German, Caleb Strutz, Ross Torgerson and Del Frenier. Honorary Pallbearers will be the Milbank Dialysis Staff, Darlene Williams, Ruby Shoestring, Sofie Bissonette, Mary Lou Wynde, Yvonne Bear, Myra Bendickson, Mary Keeble, Bernadine Gaikowski, Clarice Stone, Liberty Strutz, and Jim Strutz Sr. Interment will be in the Eagle Family Cemetery, Waubay, SD. Wake Service will be held on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 7:00 P.M. and an all night wake on Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 7:00 P.M. at the Enemy Swim Community Center, Enemy Swim, SD. The Cahill Funeral Chapel is in charge of funeral arrangements.

Bernadette Delores Mockicin sadly passed away on May 21, 2022 in her home in Enemy Swim, SD at the age of 75. She was surrounded by her family and loved ones. Grandfather Elijah Paul gave her the Dakota name Winyan Tanka when she was a child, meaning "Acts like a grown woman". Bernadette was born to Benjamin and Ione (Wanna) Eagle on May 7, 1947 in Sisseton, SD. She was raised in the Sisseton area and attended and graduated high school in Waubay, SD. She completed secretarial training in Pierre, SD. She worked several years for the DMV. She worked as an Executive Secretary at Tiospa Zina Tribal School for 17 years until retiring in 2003. She met Solomon Bird Mockicin, member of Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, while she worked at the Blue Cloud Abbey Research Center and was united in marriage to him on July 24, 1971. She had two children, Anysia Eagle and Zitka Mockicin.   Bernadette had an unwavering faith in the Lord. She found great comfort in prayer in difficult times. She also loved her gospel music. She attended revivals and camp meetings regularly in her younger days. She loved sewing and beading shawls which could be seen on dancers at the local pow-wows and on dispay in museums in Rapid City and Vermillion, SD. She could regularly be seen at the local bingo hall and local tribal council meetings. She was heavily involved in the Enemy Swim community. She was a very proud member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. Bernadette was graced with multiple grandchildren and great grandchildren and loved spending time with her family.

Bernadette is survived by her daughter Anysia Johnson of Waubay, SD and her son Zitka Mockicin of Flute Springs, OK.; Sol Mockicin of Oaks, Ok; three sisters Angeline Eagle of Waubay, SD, Violet Eagle of Waubay, SD and Imelda Eagle of Waubay, SD; three brothers John Eagle of Sioux Falls, SD, Ives Eagle of Sisseton SD, and Cletus Eagle of Watertown, SD; granddaughter Annleaia Johnson of Pierre, SD; grandson Isaiah Soldier & wife Brienne Pies-Soldier of Waubay, SD; grandson Caleb Johnson of Brookings, SD; grandson Jaden Haymer of Flute Springs, OK; and great grandchildren Dayzon Soldier, Maizy Soldier, and Izley Yamni Soldier.

Bernadette was preceded in death by her parents Benjamin and Ione (Wanna) Eagle; brother Anthony Eagle; sister Philomine North Peigan; Daughter-in-law Stephanie Jean Noisy-Mockicin, and son-in-law Irvin Delma Johnson.