Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sharp, George W. 1936 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net August 23, 2014, 11:35 am Belding Banner-News, 1 Oct 1936 George W. Sharp, aged 74 years, died at his home in Orleans village Wednesday morning of last week following a long illness caused by cancer. Mr. Sharp had been station agent at Orleans for more than 40 years. He was born in Ohio and in 1886 he was married to Laura E. Swartz, who died in 1927. A year later he was married to Mrs. Jennie Reading of Grand Rapids, who with a son, Ralph, of Florence, Alabama, and a daughter, Mrs. Roy Terry, of Easton township, survive him. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Orleans Saturday afternoon at 2:30 with Rev. Frank Loomis officiating, and burial was in Orleans cemetery, with the officers of Belding Masonic lodge, of which Mr. Sharp was a member, holding their ritualistic services at the grave. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/sharp27050nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb