Shirley Heitland, age 71, of Brookings, died Sunday, August 1, 2004, at Avera-McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls. Funeral services will be 11:00 A.M. Thursday, August 5, 2004, at the First United Methodist Church. Visitations will be 5:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M Wednesday, at Eidsness Funeral Home in Brookings. A memorial scholarship will be established. Shirley Ann (Adams) Heitland was born February 10, 1933, at Aberdeen, South Dakota, to Oscar and Bessie (Coleman) Adams. Her father died when she was ten months old. She lived in Ellendale, North Dakota, graduating from Ellendale High School and Northern State College in Aberdeen. She received a masters degree from South Dakota State University. Shirley taught elementary music, was an extension music specialist, and social worker for the Department of Social Services, specializing in adoptions. She retired in 1991. Shirley was united in marriage to Frank J. Heitland on December 28, 1958, at Ellendale, North Dakota. Frank died June 4, 1985. Shirley was an active member of the First United Methodist Church, sang in the choir, and held many positions in the life of the church. She was on the Brookings City Planning Commission, Food Pantry Board, and on many ad hoc boards and commissions. Governor Mickelson appointed her to the South Dakota State Board of Pharmacy which she served for thirteen years. She was state president of the League of Women Voters, Faculty Womens Club president, a charter member of Bel Canto Music Club, a member of Altrusa, and active in other clubs and organizations. People were important to Shirley, as was her faith. Throughout her life, she always put others before herself. She lived her life to make a difference. Grateful for having shared her life are her two daughters and their families: Katherine Ann and her husband, John Holland of Milbank, South Dakota, and their children: Samuel, Alexander, and Anna; Karen Kea Seibert and her daughter, Taylor Ann, of Brookings; one aunt, cousins, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, and a large circle of friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, a brother and an infant daughter.