The Atchison Daily Globe, Wednesday, November 11, 1942
Harve Sharp Found Dead
Former Atchison County Man Struck By Missouri Train.
Harve, Sharp, 67, retired banker, who was reared in the Kennekuk community of Atchison county, was killed by a train yesterday near Maysville, Mo., according to word received by his niece, Mrs. John Snyder of Monrovia.
He had left his home in Maysville early yesterday morning to go duck hunting. He had parked his car and was walking down the railroad tracks when killed.
Funeral services will probably be held Friday afternoon at the Monrovia Methodist church with interment on the Best lot in the Monrovia cemetery.
A son of Mr. and Mr. Joseph Sharp, Harve Sharp was born in 1875 at Kennekuk, He married Ella Best, daughter of Aaron Best at Monrovia.
He went into the lumber business with G. X. Calvert at Muscotah and later learned the banking business under Gilbert Campbell, at the State Bank of Effingham. He became president of a bank at Helena, Mo., where his wife died. Later he married Mrs. Gertrude Robinson of Maysville.
He leaves a son, Albert Sharp, who is in the army air corps at Lincoln, Neb.; a daughter Mrs. Don Critchfield, formerly Twila Sharp, Garden City, N. Y.; a brother, John Best, Effingham; a grandson, Bobby Critchfield; and three nieces, Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Webb Groff, Nortonville and Mrs. Hazel Kaufman, Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs Critchfield are enroute to Monrovia for the funeral.
Harve Sharp Found Dead
Former Atchison County Man Struck By Missouri Train.
Harve, Sharp, 67, retired banker, who was reared in the Kennekuk community of Atchison county, was killed by a train yesterday near Maysville, Mo., according to word received by his niece, Mrs. John Snyder of Monrovia.
He had left his home in Maysville early yesterday morning to go duck hunting. He had parked his car and was walking down the railroad tracks when killed.
Funeral services will probably be held Friday afternoon at the Monrovia Methodist church with interment on the Best lot in the Monrovia cemetery.
A son of Mr. and Mr. Joseph Sharp, Harve Sharp was born in 1875 at Kennekuk, He married Ella Best, daughter of Aaron Best at Monrovia.
He went into the lumber business with G. X. Calvert at Muscotah and later learned the banking business under Gilbert Campbell, at the State Bank of Effingham. He became president of a bank at Helena, Mo., where his wife died. Later he married Mrs. Gertrude Robinson of Maysville.
He leaves a son, Albert Sharp, who is in the army air corps at Lincoln, Neb.; a daughter Mrs. Don Critchfield, formerly Twila Sharp, Garden City, N. Y.; a brother, John Best, Effingham; a grandson, Bobby Critchfield; and three nieces, Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Webb Groff, Nortonville and Mrs. Hazel Kaufman, Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs Critchfield are enroute to Monrovia for the funeral.
The Atchison Daily Globe, Wednesday, November 11, 1942
Harve Sharp Found Dead
Former Atchison County Man Struck By Missouri Train.
Harve, Sharp, 67, retired banker, who was reared in the Kennekuk community of Atchison county, was killed by a train yesterday near Maysville, Mo., according to word received by his niece, Mrs. John Snyder of Monrovia.
He had left his home in Maysville early yesterday morning to go duck hunting. He had parked his car and was walking down the railroad tracks when killed.
Funeral services will probably be held Friday afternoon at the Monrovia Methodist church with interment on the Best lot in the Monrovia cemetery.
A son of Mr. and Mr. Joseph Sharp, Harve Sharp was born in 1875 at Kennekuk, He married Ella Best, daughter of Aaron Best at Monrovia.
He went into the lumber business with G. X. Calvert at Muscotah and later learned the banking business under Gilbert Campbell, at the State Bank of Effingham. He became president of a bank at Helena, Mo., where his wife died. Later he married Mrs. Gertrude Robinson of Maysville.
He leaves a son, Albert Sharp, who is in the army air corps at Lincoln, Neb.; a daughter Mrs. Don Critchfield, formerly Twila Sharp, Garden City, N. Y.; a brother, John Best, Effingham; a grandson, Bobby Critchfield; and three nieces, Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Webb Groff, Nortonville and Mrs. Hazel Kaufman, Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs Critchfield are enroute to Monrovia for the funeral.
Harve Sharp Found Dead
Former Atchison County Man Struck By Missouri Train.
Harve, Sharp, 67, retired banker, who was reared in the Kennekuk community of Atchison county, was killed by a train yesterday near Maysville, Mo., according to word received by his niece, Mrs. John Snyder of Monrovia.
He had left his home in Maysville early yesterday morning to go duck hunting. He had parked his car and was walking down the railroad tracks when killed.
Funeral services will probably be held Friday afternoon at the Monrovia Methodist church with interment on the Best lot in the Monrovia cemetery.
A son of Mr. and Mr. Joseph Sharp, Harve Sharp was born in 1875 at Kennekuk, He married Ella Best, daughter of Aaron Best at Monrovia.
He went into the lumber business with G. X. Calvert at Muscotah and later learned the banking business under Gilbert Campbell, at the State Bank of Effingham. He became president of a bank at Helena, Mo., where his wife died. Later he married Mrs. Gertrude Robinson of Maysville.
He leaves a son, Albert Sharp, who is in the army air corps at Lincoln, Neb.; a daughter Mrs. Don Critchfield, formerly Twila Sharp, Garden City, N. Y.; a brother, John Best, Effingham; a grandson, Bobby Critchfield; and three nieces, Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Webb Groff, Nortonville and Mrs. Hazel Kaufman, Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs Critchfield are enroute to Monrovia for the funeral.
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