Age 54, Elgin - Funeral services will be at 1:30 pm Friday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Santiago "Ponce" Leon, Pastor of Victorious Faith Center, Boone-Apache, OK., officiating. Beloved wife, mother and grandmother, she went to her well-deserved place in Heaven as a Daughter of Israel on Monday, December 28, 2009 after a long courageous battle with cancer. Burial with military honors will be at 1:00 pm Monday in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin. *** The family will greet friends Thursday evening from 6pm until 8pm at the funeral home. *** Shirley was a shining star. Much beloved, greatly admired and well respected by all who knew her. She was a woman of constant positive outlook, great self-determination that enabled her to accomplish any goal she set for herself, great personal strength that she readily shared with all who needed her, and great kindness to all. Shirley loved the Lord with all she was and was a model of great fortitude. She never wavered in her faith and commitment to her path of truth and light. Shirley Sisko Harkins was born March 10, 1955 in Ironwood, Michigan to James and Mildred (Hietikko) Sisko. She graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in Michigan, spending her senior year as a foreign exchange student in Brasilia, Brazil, where she became fluent in Portuguese. She then attended Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan. She was a veteran of the US Army, serving honorably as a member of the Women's Army Corp (WAC) with the US Army Signal Corps in Bad Kreuznach, Germany from 1976 until 1978. She married Daniel Harkins on March 24, 1979 in Ironwood, MI. She earned her Master's degree in Business at Cameron University in Lawton, then earned a Master's degree in Divinity and became an ordained minister, as well as Director of the Drama Drash Ministries of Lawton. She is survived by her beloved husband of thirty years, Daniel Gordon Harkins, a daughter Emily Mary Harkins, son Daniel J. Harkins and wife Amber, granddaughter Avigail, her brother Jimmy Sisko and his wife Margie and niece Julie of Wausau, WI, sister Beverly Lombardo of Hurley, WI, sister Sandy Gertz and her husband Donny of Ironwood, MI, brother-in-law Jerry Korpi of Ironwood, MI and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, sister Mary Kay Korpi, nephew Kevin DeLimba and her brother-in-law Ronnie Lombardo.