Obit of Sharp, Sidney Ray "Sid" - Woods County OK

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::Palo Duro Cemetery--Palo Duro TX

Sidney Ray "Sid" Sharp

Sidney Ray "Sid" Sharp, 78, of Amarillo died Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Paramount Terrace Christian 
Church with the Rev. Jim Hawthrone officiating. Burial will be in 
Palo Duro Cemetery in Wildorado by Cox Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon 
Drive.

Mr. Sharp was born Dec. 19, 1925, in Edith, Woods County, Okla. He 
was the 10th child of R.J. and Rosa McFarlin Sharp. He moved in 1930 
with his parents to a northeastern Deaf Smith County farm, southeast 
of Wildorado, Oldham County, where he attended school and graduated 
from high school in May 1943.

After graduation, during World War II, he was inducted into the Air 
Corps at Fort Sill, Okla., and took his basic training at Sheppard 
Field at Wichita Falls. He was then sent to radio school at Madison, 
Wis. He was transferred into the infantry 32nd division and served in 
the Philippine Islands. After the war, he was sent to Tokyo for 
occupation duty. Then he was transferred back into the 5th Air Corps, 
where he was a crew chief on a P-51 fighter. After serving his tour 
of duty, he was discharged at Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio in 
August 1946. When he returned home, he was engaged in farming until 
his retirement in 1992.

He met his future wife at a country home dance, where both were 
musicians. He married Zada Frances Mears on Aug. 16, 1947, in 
Amarillo. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1997.

Over the years, Sid served as commander of Hanson American Legion 
Post 168 in Vega, worshipful master of Vega Masonic Lodge No. 899, 
worthy patron of the now disbanded Vega Order of the Eastern Star No. 
528, was currently a member of A.E. Shirley Chapter OES in Amarillo, 
served on the Wildorado School Board and was a 4-H leader in Oldham 
County. He was a 32nd degree shriner of Khiva Shrine Center in 
Amarillo, a 23-year member of Khiva Shrine Oriental Band and served 
as president and secretary on the Bushland Grain Co-op Elevator 
Board.

Sid enjoyed music, dancing and playing dominoes, especially 42 
tournaments at Wildorado Co-op. He especially enjoyed hosting barn 
dances and doing the meat cooking for the Shrine when living on the 
farm southeast of Bushland. He also hosted several Oriental Band corn 
shuckings so corn-on-the-cob could be sold during the Tri-State Fair 
in the old Winnebago.

He was preceded in death by a grandson, Shad Lee Sharp; his parents; 
six brothers, Ed, Frank, Carl, Harvey, Vernie and Emerson; and three 
sisters, Nellie French, Florence Warren and Lillie Tidwell.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Kim Smith and husband, 
Rodney, of Springfield, Va., and Lavon Denson and husband, Gary, of 
San Antonio; two sons, Dr. Auddie and wife, Janet, of Merriam, Kan., 
and Justin of Tucson, Ariz.; a granddaughter, Sundy Leigh Sharp of 
Amarillo; two grandsons, Thomas and Conagher Denson of San Antonio; 
and a host of nieces and nephews.

The family suggests memorials be to Khiva Shrine Travel Fund, 305 E. 
Fifth Ave., Amarillo, TX 79101.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Amarillo Globe-News, Nov. 9, 2004
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