Earnestine “Tina” Alberta Harris passed away Dec. 6, 2025. Tina was born in Shawnee, OK to Earnest Albert Patterson and Bettie Jean Kratz June 14, 1948. Following graduation from Shawnee High School in 1966, she was employed by the Oklahoma Department of Public Welfare in Oklahoma City. Tina later took her secretarial skills to Tinker Air Force Base where she dedicated 34 years of service, finally retiring as an aircraft mechanic.
Tina was preceded in death by her parents as well as her sister, Barbara Jean O’Conner, and her brother, James Earnest Patterson.
She is survived by her children: Tammy Atherton and husband Bill of Fayette, MO, Robert Kendall Lynam of Harrah, OK, and Tina Marie Day of Harrah, OK, as well as eleven grandchildren: Jonathan and his wife Rachel, Ashley and her husband Dillon, Hunter and his wife Destiny, Andrew, Elyssa, Hayden, Matthew, Wyatt, Hudson, Jennifer, and Emily; and great-grandchildren: Zandur, Nova, Journee, Kayleigh, Mara, and Charlotte.
Service dates will be added at a later date under the direction of Resthaven Funeral Home, Shawnee.
