TITLE:  Don Sharp

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier, July 10, 2001

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, July 2001

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  SHARP, Don
Graveside services for Don Carlos, Sharp, Jr., will be held at 11:00 
am., Wednesday in Swallow Savannah Cemetery with the Reverend James 
Morgan, officiating. The family will be at home, Roselawn Plantation, 
2795 Revolutionary Trail, Allendale. In lieu of flowers, memorials may 
be made to Palmetto Health, Hospice. Post Office Box 1123, Bamberg, 
South Carolina 29003 or to the Swallow Savannah Cemetery Care of 
Margaret Moffet, 211 Burns Lane, Allendale, South Carolina 29810.  Mr. 
Sharp died Monday afternoon at his residence in Allendale. Born in 
Akron, Alabama, he was the son of the late Don Carlos Sharp and 
Kathleen Wilson Sharp. He was a lifelong resident of Allendale; a 
member of the Allendale Presbyterian Church, where he was an elder and 
a past Superintendent of the Sunday school. Mr. Sharp entered military 
service in June 1941, was commissioned in the Tank Destroyer Division 
of the Field Artillery and served as an instructor in this branch of 
service until the end of the war. After World War II., Mr. Sharp 
attended Clemson, graduating magna cum laude with a degree in agronomy.
He became a Master Farmer, president of the Allendale County Farm 
Bureau, and a southeastern leader in certified seed production. He 
served on the South Carolina Agricultural Study Committee under 
Governors McNair and West. He was a past president of both the South 
Carolina Crop Improvement Association and the South Carolina Seedman's 
Association. Mr. Sharp was president and founder of Sharp Certified 
Seed, which became Sharp and Sharp Certified Seed when his son became 
a partner. Surviving are wife, Camille Cunningham Sharp; sister, Lois 
Sharp All, Tallahassee, Florida; daughter, Camille Sharp Pennington 
Nairn and her, husband, Alan Eben MacKenzie Nairn, Columbia; son, Don 
Carlos Sharp III and his wife, Julia Ann Kearse Sharp, Barnwell; 
grandchildren, Carl Scott Pennington, Jr., and his wife, Jill 
Suzanne-Johnson Pennington, East Lansing, Michigan; Dave-Sharp 
Pennington, Columbia, Dana Nairn Akhvlediani and her husband, 
Constantine Akhvlediani, Columbia and Don Carlos Sharp IV and Rachael 
Elizabeth Sharp, Barnwell; great-grandchildren, George Michael 
Akhvlediani and Alexander Akhvlediani. (The Post and Courier July 10, 
2001)
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