OBITS: SHARP, Ruby Brewer Engle - 1 Mar 2000 - Whitley Co, KY
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:42:41 -0500
Submitted by: Bobbie Lewallen (TNGirl@icx.net)

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FROM THE NEWS-JOURNAL, CORBIN, KY, 3/9/00

Ruby Brewer Engle Sharp, 85, Route 1, Candle Ridge Community, Gray,
passed away Wednesday, March 1, 2000 in the Baptist Regional Medical Center.

She was born May 28, 1914 in Whitley County to the late Rev. James and
Elizabeth Monhollen Brewer. She was preceded in death by her 14 brothers and
sisters, and her first husband, Oliver Engle, to whom she was married from
May 15, 1931 until his passing on August 3, 1975.
Ruby belonged to the Candle Ridge Baptist Church, the Bryant Chapter of the
Order of the Eastern Star for 52 years, and was a former member and officer
of the Rebeccas at Gray.

She is survived by three children and their spouses, Shirley and Mavis
Engle, and Berdeina and Ova Herren of Corbin, and Judy L. and Alfred L.
Smith of Grays; Rev. Alonzo Sharp and eight step-children; 6 grandchildren
and their spouses, Debbie and Charles Felts of London, Jim and Sheila
Herren, and Bill and Gina Herren of Corbin, Michael H. and Sherri Smith of
London, Sherri and Steelie Scalf of Grays, and Alfred L. (Al) Smith II of
Nicholasville; 14 great-grandchildren; a brother-in-law, Dewey Engle of
Williamsburg; a sister-in-law, Clydia Haggard of Grays; and her caretaker,
Allie Brown of Grays.

Funeral services were held Sunday, March 5 at the O'Neil Funeral Home
Chapel with Rev. Sam Moore and Rev. Herschell Walker officiating. Interment
was in the Candle Ridge Cemetery.

Grandsons served as pallbearers. Friends and fellow church members were
the honorary bearers.

O'Neil Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.