Sharpe - Wilmer
Source: Tri-County News, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana Thursday, Feb 9, 1956
There are times when one wonders how much the course of his life is dictated by circumstances and accidents and how much that we plan towards is really attained. This is a matter which this writer and the subject of our sketch, Wilmer SHARPE, Waveland store proprietor, spent some too-hurried minutes exploring recently. Wilmer, like so many of us in our same age bracket, was at an age to get started on a business or a professional career when the slight of the great depression of the 30s hung over the land in all its terrifying intensity. Consequently, Wilmer, again like many of us, found himself in his pres ent line of work pretty much by chance. His father, Ray, worked as a cert ified pharmicist for Burrin®s Drug Store, and a brother Floyd who was killed in France during WWII, also was a registered pharmacist. Wilmer's plan and the hope of his father, was him, too would go to school to become a pharmacist. But the depression changed that hope in Wilmer's case just as altered the lives of many millions of other people. After graduat ng in 1933 from Waveland HS, Wilmer worked for a year at Turkey Run then in 1935 joined his father who had shortly before opened his own store in Waveland. When the other Mr. Sharpe died in 1939, Wilmer and his m ther, now Mrs. Perry Schultz of Fountain County became the store's proprietors. Wilmer is married to the former Virginia Banta and they have a daughter, Pamela, 10. He is a Past Master of the Waveland Masonic Lodge. Occupied in a business where he can't find too much free time, Wilmer does try to get in at least one week's time fishing during the summer. Other moments away from the store can usually find him engaged in his other hobby - woodworking at home. - tyoped by kbz