Sharp, Vernon E. 1904-1988

SHARP, BELL, DOAK, REEL

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 3/1/2003 at 09:28:10

Vernon E. Sharp, 84, of Rt. 4, Newton, a longtime resident of Kellogg, died of a heart attack Thursday morning, Sept. 29, at his home.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Reese Chapel.

The Rev. Craig Peters, pastor of the Pleaseant View Methodist Church, will conduct services. Burial will be in Our Silent City Cemetery in Kellogg.

Friends may call at the funeral home after noon today. Visitation with the family will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today.

Memorial contributions to the Pleasant View Methodist Church may be left at the funeral home.

Survivors are two daughters, Colleen Benson of Rt. 4, Newton, with whom Mr. Sharp made his home, and Arlene (Mrs. Clinton) Gifford of Kellogg; three step-sons, Merril Reel of Osage Beach, Mo., Russell Reel of Des Moines and Richard Reel of Prairie City; a step-daughter, Shirley Mc Reynolds of Milo; 11 grandchildren, and two brothers, Otto Sharp and Oakley Sharp, both of Kellogg.

He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, a sister, his first wife, Vina Bell in 1948, and his second wife, Kathryn Reel in 1960.

Mr. Sharp was a member of the Pleasant View Methodist Church and a longtime member of the Jasper County Farm Bureau.

He had farmed in the Kellogg community most of his life, had worked at the Kellogg elevator and had been janitor at the Grinnell Junior High School and for the Conservation Commission at Rock Creek Park.

The son of Frank and Mary Doak Sharp, he was born Feb. 11, 1904 on a farm north of Killduff.

He was married to Vina Bell in February, 1929, in Newton and to Kathryn Reel in February, 1953.

Mr. Sharp also had resided in Milo from 1953 to 1961. ~ The Newton Daily News, September 29, 1988.