Dougherty-Lee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Tharp, Thomas Page September 9, 2007
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Ann Yeager annmarkvii@yahoo.com and Freddie Page  September 21, 2007, 5:37 am

Kimbrell Stern Obituaries
Date of Birth: March 21, 1930  
Date of Death: September 09, 2007  

Thomas Page Tharp, 77, of Leesburg died Sunday, September 9, 2007, at his home 
after a brief struggle with cancer. 

He was a lifelong Lee County resident and a 1947 graduate of Leesburg High 
school. He was a graduate of Emory university where he was awarded a Bachelor’s 
in Business Administration in 1951 and was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and 
the Emory Glee club. He was a member of the Leesburg united Methodist Church 
and previously served as a deacon of the Leesburg First Baptist Church.

He was a veteran of the Korean conflict during which he was appointed Lee 
County Treasurer in 1952 at the death of his father, who had held the office 
since 1918. He retired from that office in 1992. He was appointed the first 
full-time administrator of Lee County where he had also served as Clerk of the 
Lee county Board of commissioners. His other areas of public service included 
serving as clerk of the city of Leesburg. He had served on the Lee county Board 
of Health, on the advisory board of HCA Palmyra Medical Center and as past 
commander of American Legion Post 182. He had managed Tharp Insurance Agency 
founded by his father in 1910. He was a devoted husband and father and took 
great pride and interest in his family’s activities. Most recently he was a 
dedicated grandfather attending as many of his grandchildren’s sporting, music, 
and school activities around Georgia as possible until July of this year. He 
enioyed the friendship of many lifelong friends as well as new acquaintances. 
His love for Lee County was evident throughout his life, and he was delighted 
with the county’s development during his professional career and beyond. He had 
served as contributor to the Lee county Chamber of Commerce’s Choronicles of 
the county history: A Train Ran Through It, and The caboose came Last. 

Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Patricia Dunaway Tharp, two sons: 
Thomas Page Tharp, Jr. (Daphne) of Leesburg, Jeffrey Lanier Tharp (Louise) of 
Marietta; Grandsons: Andrew Alex Tharp, Garrison Heath Tharp, both of Leesburg, 
and Addison Harris Tharp of Marietta. Niece: Myra Moye Morgan (Larry) of 
Columbus; Nephew: Allen Tharp Moye of Cuthbert; Brothers-in- law: Harvey Lanier 
Dunaway, Jr. of Columbus, David Dunaway (Sandra) of Lumpkin, and Danny Dunaway 
of Columbus, and sister- in-law Margaret Dunaway Allmon (Russell) of Lumpkin. 
He was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas Cobb Tharp and Pauline Page 
Tharp of Leesburg, and sister Florence M. Tharp Moye (A. J.) of Cuthbert. 

Services will be held on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 11:00 AM at the 
Leesburg United Methodist Church with the Reverends Bobby Moye, Mike Lyons,and 
Eugene Barlow officiating. Interment will follow immediately at the Leesburg 
cemetery. Those wishing to make memorials are requested to consider the 
Leesburg United Methodist Church, P. 0. Box 207, Leesburg, GA 31763 or the 
Willson Hospice House, P.O. Box 1828, Albany, GA 31702 

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/dougherty/obits/t/tharp10480ob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/

File size: 3.6 Kb