Washoe-Storey County NV Archives Obituaries.....Sharon, George B. March 3 1923
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Reno Evening Gazette March 5, 1923
Veteran Officer of 2 wars dies

  Lieut. Col. George B. Sharon of Virginia City, one of three officiers 

especially appointed from the Pacific coast district by President William 

McKinley in 1898, died at a Reno hospital Saturday night, following an 

operation for a disease of the stomach, contracted in France during the World 

War.

  Lieut. Col. Sharon was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Sharon of Virginia City, 

and was a few days less than forty-five years of age.  He had been in the 

United States army since the outbreak of the Spanish American War, when he was 

commissioned a second lieutenant.  Following service in the Spanish-American 

war, he spent more than four years in the Philippine Islands, then was 

stationed on the border, and at Vera Cruz at the time of the accupation [sic] 

of that city by the United States armed forces.  During the World War he spent 

nine months in France.

  Besides his parents, the widow, Mrs. Pauline Sharon, and a daughter, Sally 

Sharon of West Point, their home, survive him, and also a brother, Frank E. 

Sharon of Oakland, Cal.

  Funeral services will be held at two o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Ross-

Burke Company parlors.

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