Logan County, West Virginia, Obituaries:  Sharon S. Elkins

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Bristol Herald Courier
Monday, November 25, 2002

Sharon S. Elkins
     GRUNDY -- Sharon Kay Sparks Elkins, 42 years of age, passed away Sunday,
Nov. 24, 2002, in Buchanan General Hospital. Born in Huntington, W.Va., Feb.
25, 1960, she was the daughter of Clyde Sparks and Nora Dingess Sparks of Big
Creek, W.Va. She moved to Grundy in 1998 with her husband who pastors the
Grundy Church of God, attended Southwest Virginia Community College and was
employed as a bookkeeper for Miners & Merchants Bank. Sharon was a loving wife
to her husband of 26 years.
     She was preceded in death by one brother, Michael Sparks; maternal
grandfather, Norwood Dingess; and paternal grandparents, Less Sparks and
Jessie Sparks.
     She is survived by her parents, Clyde Sparks and Nora Dingess Sparks of
Big Creek; her husband, Douglas F. Elkins of Grundy; maternal grandmother,
Ottie Dingess of Big Creek; one sister, Carolyn Thompson of Madison, N.C.; and
two brothers, Richard Sparks and Alan Sparks, both of Chapmanville, W.Va. She
is also survived by several nieces and nephews.
     Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2002, at 1 p.m. at
the Stone Branch Church of God in Stone Branch, W.Va.,. with Reverend Larry
Brooks and Reverend Harry Dingess officiating. Burial will follow in the
Highland Memory Gardens in Logan, W.Va.
     Active pallbearers will be family and friends.
     The body will be left at the Shortridge-Ramey Funeral Home where friends
may call after 6 p.m. Tuesday evening with services at 7 p.m. The body will be
taken to the Stone Branch Church of God, Stone Branch, W.Va., Wednesday at 11
a.m. to await the funeral hour at 1 p.m.
     The family of Sharon Kay Sparks Elkins is being served by Shortridge-
Ramey Funeral Home of Grundy.