Jean K Sharp

Jean K Sharp passed away on 12/12 after battling dementia. She was the daughter of the late Author and Rose (Willis) Kerswill. Jean graduated from Swedesboro High and Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Wilmington. Nursing was her passion. The patients she helped and her co-workers loved her. Friends and family would often call for medical advice and most of the time her diagnosis would be right but of course she could not prescribe the medicine they needed and would send them to the doctor. Jean’s faith was bold and strong. She was often the first person to greet you in church if you were new to the congregation. She was always inviting people for holiday dinners if their families were not close by, to spend it with her family. When the Sharp family went on vacation, Jean would search for a church close by to attend. “If you played on Saturday night, you can pray on Sunday morning!” One of Jean’s many gifts was hospitality. She loved to cook, try new recipes, and plan special parties. She would often make a delicious dinner, after both daughters declared there was “ nothing to eat in the refrigerator” after school. Of course, her real calling in life was as a wife, mother and grand and great grand mother. Jean was married to the late Irving Sharp . They shared 64 years of marriage together and blessed with two daughters, Terri Overbey and Carol(Larry) Gardiner; and later by grandchildren Garrison Overbey, Cameron(Kelsie) Overbey, Benjamin(Abbie) Overbey, Caitlin(Phelan) Cole and Grant(Kelli) Gardiner and 4 great-grandsons. Come celebrate 88 great years Friday, December 20th, 9-11 a.m. at Daley Life Celebration Studio, 1518 Kings Highway, Swedesboro where there will be an 11 a.m. service. Interment Lake Park Cemetary