Longtime MSUMC parishioner Sharkey Tahakjian, 94, passed away on December 17, 2012, at the Scandinavian Home in Cranston surrounded by her loving family. She was a most devoted wife to her late husband Martin L. Tahakjian to whom she was married for fifty-seven years. Born in Uxbridge, MA and raised in Whitinsville, she was the daughter of the late Thomas and Azniv (Rustigian) Muradian. Sharkey graduated from Northbridge High School in 1935 with honors, and was class valedictorian. During WW-II she worked at Whitin Machine works in Whitinsville. After her marriage in 1946 she moved to Providence and then to Cranston in 1992.
She worked for the U.S. Postal Service at the Turnkey in Providence from 1970-1983. In addition to MSUMC, she was a member of the Armenian Evangelical Church.
Sharkey was most devoted to her family, as well as being a great cook, a talented seamstress, a lover of music and a wealth of knowledge. She was the devoted mother of Sharlene T. Moran and her husband John of Centerville, MA, Martin T.L. Tahakjian and his wife Susan of West Warwick, and Sheryl T. Lafleur and her husband Gerard of Burrillville; loving grandmother of Matthew Moran, Elizabeth (Moran) Hamel and her husband Shane, Dr. Jarret Lafleur, Justin Lafleur and Paul Tencher; loving great-grandmother of Cooper and Holden Hamel; and sister of the late Thomas Muradian, Jr. and Oscar Muradian.