Dale Mrs. Sharpe

MRS. DALE SHARPE

EVANS-Mrs. Ruth Dale Sharpe, 62, beloved wife of 40 years of Charles D. Sharpe, entered into rest on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at University Hospital.

Funeral services will be held on Monday, February 14, 2011 at 11:00 am Sharon Baptist Church with the Rev. Andy Collins officiating. Burial will follow in the Sharon Baptist Church Cemetery.

Mrs. Sharpe was a retired special education teacher who had worked at Harlem High School, Evans High School and Riverside Middle School. She worked for twenty years with the Columbia County Board of Education, and prior to that, she was with the Richmond County Board of Education for ten years. She was a member of Sharon Baptist Church and that church was very dear to her heart. Her church family will never forget the memories and the love she shared with each and every one of them. She had recently attended her 43rd high school reunion in Bacon County, where she reconnected with so many of her dear classmates.

In addition to her husband, Charles, she is survived by her brothers Marian David Sims and his wife, Brenda Brooks Sims, “Sonny” Harris Way Sims, Jr. and his wife, Sara Parker Sims, and Stephen Dumont Sims, and his wife, Gail Fulford Sims. She is also survived by a brother in law, David L. Sharpe Jr., and wife, Suzanne, as well as her nieces and nephews, Jeffrey David Sims, Jana Sims Felkel, Alicia Sims Bowman, Brian Parker Sims, Alan Way Sims, Tyler Stephen Sims, Chandler Dumont Sims, Cameron Fulford Sims, Jordan Harris Sims, Keely Lillard and Trey Sharpe.

Pallbearers will be her nephews.

If so desired, memorials may be made to the Sharon Baptist Church Building Fund, 6262 Cobbham Road, Appling, Georgia, 30802.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Sunday evening, February 13, 2011 from 5:00 until 7:00 pm.