Charles Franklin (Charlie) Sharp, 80, of Lake City, died Saturday at the Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.<\/p>\n
A long time member and deacon of Ridgeview Baptist Church, he had served as church pianist for over 20 years.<\/p>\n
Mr. Sharp was a retired UMWA coal miner and a member of Local No. 1569, District 28.<\/p>\n
Born Nov. 21, 1912, in Anderson County, he was the son of the late Samuel T. and Martha Cooper Sharp.<\/p>\n
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by sons, Arthur Thomas Sharp in 1973 and Bobby Lee (Bob) Sharp in 1988; granddaughter, Susan Sharp; brothers, W.G. Sharp, Earl Sharp, Wayne Sharp and Roland Sharp; sisters, Ada Adkins and Mada Wallace.<\/p>\n
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Mary J. Hatmaker\u00a0Sharp of Lake City; son and daughter-in-law, Bill (B.J.) and Marcella Sharp of Richmond, Va.; daughters and sons-in-law, Betty Lou and Charles Stephens and Mary Sue and Gene Horner, all of Lake City; Nancy J. and Bill Beasley of Tacoma, Wash.; 13 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; sisters, Beulah Smiddy and Maude Beard, both of Napoleon, Ohio; several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
Funeral services were at Cox Funeral Home on Tuesday night with the Rev. Howard Robbins officiating. Burial was Wednesday at Leach Cemetery in Lake City.<\/p>\n
Clinton Courier News, <\/em>13 Oct 1993<\/p>\n [Courtesy of Brenda Foster]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obituary of Charles Franklin Sharp, 1993: Charles Franklin (Charlie) Sharp, 80, of Lake City, died Saturday at the Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge. A long time member and deacon Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-q-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4866,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}