George William SHARP

SHARP, MATTISON, UTESCH, JONES, PATTON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/31/2010 at 12:24:33

March 1, 1881 -- December 26, 1962

Funeral services for George W. Sharp, 81 were held Saturday afternoon Dec. 29 at 2 p.m. at the Congregational Church with the Rev. Orlan Mitchell officiating. Burial was at the Clarion Evergreen cemetery with the Eyler Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

George William Sharp, son of Almira and John R. Sharp was born March 1, 1881, at Mauston, Wisconsin. In 1900, he was united in marriage to Maud Mattison. He engaged in farming near Plover, Iowa, in Minnesota, and then in Canada. He worked for a time in Laurens, before moving to Eagle Grove, where he was a fireman for the Northwestern Railroad. In 1912, he moved his family to Clarion, where he was employed by the Chicago Great Western Railroad until his retirement in 1946. He was preceded in death by his wife and one brother. Surviving him are one brother, Dell Sharp of Prineville, Oregon, a half-brother, Charles Sharp of Harrisburg, South Dakota and a half-sister Dolly Utesch of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Also surviving are ten children Mrs. Lyle Jones (Mabel), Kansas City, Missouri, Mrs. Maynard Patton (Esther), Swaledale, Ed, Earl, Walter, Ernest, Willard, and Don of Clarion, Ralph of Des Moines and Wayne of St. Louis, Missouri, 28 grandchildren and 39 great-grandchildren. Mr. Sharp was a member of the First Congregational Church of Clarion and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. He passed away December 26, 1962 at Humboldt, Iowa.

Wright County Monitor, Clarion, IA
10 January 1963