Sarah Sharp

Sarah Frances Reed Sharp was born in Knox City on Feb. 10, 1933 to John Luther and Mary Catherine Stanford Reed. She stepped into her heavenly home on Monday, June 5, 2023.

A Celebration of Sarah’s Life will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 8, 2023, at the First Baptist Church of Electra with her grandsons Jeremy Hare and Brady Sharp officiating.

The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. Thursday until service time at the church. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Aulds Funeral Home of Electra.

Sarah started school in Bomarton. When she was nine years old, her parents moved the family to a farm between Goree and Munday. Sarah graduated from Munday High School in May 1950. She met her wonderful husband Doyle Wayne Sharp from Rochester, through mutual friends. They were married at her parents’ home on Oct. 21, 1950. They were married nearly sixty-nine years when he passed away on July 1, 2019.

Sarah was a member of Bible Baptist Church in Electra. She loved gospel music. She loved to sew, crochet, read and bake delicious cookies for her grandkids and everyone.

She is survived by daughter Lynell Hare of Wichita Falls; sons Steve Sharp and wife Carlene of Dean, Derrel Sharp of Electra, Larry Sharp and wife Aloha of Humble; grandchildren Joel Hare and wife Sheila, Jeremy Hare and wife Teresa, April Ortiz, Mikayla Williams and husband Paul Michael, Stephanie Starr and husband Tim, Brady Sharp and wife Melissa, Brianna Wolfe and husband Daniel and Nathan Sharp and wife Brittni; great-grandchildren Julia Hare, Jonathan Hare and wife Chandra, Hannah, Miriam, Eli and Ada Hare, Joseph and Isaiah Soto, Giovannia Ortiz, Abigail and John Williams, 

Taryn Newman and husband Aaron, Sarah Whitehead and husband Dalton, Drake, Holt and Clara Sharp, August and Eden Wolfe; brother George Reed and wife Nancy of Willis; sisters-in-law Ruby Sharp Hubbard, Sandy Sharp, and Lynne Reed; and also many nieces and nephews and numerous friends.

Sarah was preceded in death by her parents; husband; sisters Jewel Thomas (Bruce), Catherine Wilson (Debs), Jenny Yates (Bill), Margie Thomas (Carson); brothers Floyd Reed (Rene), Lloyd Reed ( Jeanette). Paul Reed, baby brother Royce Joe Reed; and son-in-law John Hare.