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Steve T. Sisk

LONE WOLF, OKLA. - Steve T. Sisk, 78, died Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006, in Oklahoma
City.

Services will be at 11 a.m. today in People's Co-operative Funeral Home Chapel
with Bill Coffin, minister of Hobart Church of Christ, officiating. Burial
will be in Lone Wolf Cemetery.

Mr. Sisk was born March 21, 1928, in Friona, Texas, to Kate Pillow Sisk and
Robert Sisk.

Mr. Sisk enlisted in the Merchant Marine at age 15 and two years later, at age
17, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. After World War II, he went to China
with Marine Occupation Forces and was there 18 months. In 1950, he was called
back to active duty and served in Korea, where he was awarded two Purple Heart
medals for injuries sustained in combat with enemy forces.

He married Neta Card Sisk on July 15, 1948, in Mangum and attended Hardin
Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. He worked in financial management for
several businesses and in 1970, began ranching in the Panhandle of Texas,
where he also was the caretaker for the Range Riders Riding Club until his
retirement in 1990.

He and his wife moved to Lone Wolf in 1994, where he resided until his
passing.

Mr. Sisk was a member of Church of Christ.

He was preceded in death by three sisters and a brother.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Gregory Steven Sisk and wife Denise Rankin
of Glenwood Springs, Colo.; a daughter, Jerri Harrington and husband Don of
Centreville, Va.; a brother, Cecil Sisk of Winter Park, Colo.; a sister,
Flossie Rhinehart of Casper, Wyo.; five grandsons, Ansel Rankin-Sisk,
Christopher Harrington, Steve Harrington, Don Curtis Harrington and Nathaniel
Harrington; and two sisters-in-law, Jerri Smith of Granbury, Texas, and Yvonne
Morris of Lone Wolf.

The family suggests memorials be to Westview Boys Home, 120 W. Broadway St.,
Hollis, OK 73550.