"Nanny"
Marguerite Rose Murray Sharp, 84, of Salt Lake City, died May 29, 2003 at her home surrounded by her loving family.
She was born on April 1, 1919 in Salt Lake City to James and Stella Jackson Murray. She graduated from St. Mary of the Wasatch High School.
She married John "Jack" Arlington Sharp on October 1, 1942. Together they founded Sharp Engineering/Titan Steel. After Jack's death in 1960, she became the Chief Financial Officer for Steel Contractors, Inc. and retired from there in 1984. After her retirement she went to work part time for the University of Utah Newman Center and Saint Catherine of Sienna Parish. She continued to work at the Newman Center until 2001, just after her 82nd birthday because of her love for the parishioners and Dominican priests affiliated with Saint Catherine's. Marguerite was a long time member of the Catholic Women's League and Zonta. Although Marguerite loved her career and the people with whom she worked her greatest love was for her family.
She was preceded in death by her husband Jack, her son Mike, her sisters lleene Hansen and Patricia Hession, and her brother-in-law, Patrick
Hession.
She leaves behind a family who loved her dearly and who will always be grateful for her incomparable strength, her unqualified love for her family and friends, and her abiding faith in God.
She leaves behind many special friends and a family who will always be thankful that we could share her life including her children Jim and Nicky Sharp, Sharon and Monty Paradis, and her grandchildren, Jamie Sharp, Tim and Jen Sharp, Amy and Frank Conte, Mike and Renee Paradis, and Michelle Sharp, her great- grandchildren, C.J, Michael, James, Breanna, Sammy, Brendan, Brandon, Nicollette, and Nate, and many wonderful nieces and nephews.
A funeral mass will be celebrated Monday at 11:00 a.m. at St. Vincent's Catholic Church, 1375 East Spring Lane (5000 South), where friends may call one half hour prior to mass. Committal: Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery, 4th Avenue and T Street. Funeral Directors: Neil O'Donnell and Sons.