Sharpe - Wilmer T
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 3 Jan 1969 p 10
Waveland - Wilmer Theodore Sharpe, 53, owner and operator of the Sharpe's Drug Store in Waveland, died suddenly Friday morning at his home here. Born May 13, 1915, in Waveland, he was the son of Ray and Indian Wilson Sharpe. He graduated from Waveland HS in 1933. On June 23, 1938, he married Virginia Banta in Crawfordsville. Mr. Sharpe had been a life-long resident of Waveland and had been associated with the drug store here for 30 years. He was a member of the Waveland Christian Church. He was past master of the Waveland Masonic Lodge 300, F&AM, treasurer of the Waveland Volunteer Fire Department and secretary of the Maple Ridge Cemetery Association of Waveland. Survivors include the widow; a daughter, Mrs. David (Pamela) Bloomer of Danville, Ind; the mother, Mrs. India Shultz of Waveland; two aunts, Mrs. Estella Perkins of Indianapolis and Mrs. Hallie Spencer of Crawfordsville and a niece, Brenda Kress, Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Machledt & Servies Funeral Home in Waveland. Rev. John F. Deal will officiate. Burial will be in Waveland Maple Ridge Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Saturday. -- jlr
A bio a few years before his death - Wilmer was super cool. He'd tease us kids when we go into his sho to get a treat and for a nickle he'd wiggle his ears for us (it was an amazing talent - they looked like they were dancing).
Source: Tri-County News, 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 present line of work pretty much by chance. His father, Ray, worked as a certified 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 graduating 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.