Background
Sr., Robert F. Sharpe was born on September 8, 1926 in Florence, Alabama, United States.
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Robert F. Sharpe Sr.
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Education
Bachelor of Science, Memphis State University, 1957.
Career
Life insurance agent, Pilot Life Insurance Company, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1950-1954; agent, supervisor, Volunteer Life Insurance Company, Chattanooga, 1954; agent, Crown Life Insurance Company, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1954-1959; secretary stewardship, Good News Broadcasting Association, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1959-1963; executive director, Reformed Presbyterian Foundation, St. Louis, 1963-1965; founder, Robert F. Sharpe & Company Inc., Memphis, 1963-1993; senior consultant, Robert F. Sharpe & Company Inc., Memphis, since 1993. Founder, executive director National Planned Giving Institute, 1967-1993, National Planned Giving Institute at the College of William and Mary, 1993-1998.
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Politics
The separation of church and state has guaranteed the diversity of religious expressions and the freedom to worship God according to each person’s conscience. However, separation of church and state permit interaction.
Views
All persons need the ministry of the Church in their struggles for human fulfillment, as well as the spiritual and emotional care of a fellowship that enables reconciling relationships with God, with others, and with self.
Membership
Trustee Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Church Health Center, Memphis, Endowment Association College William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Chairman, Board Of Directors Wesley Housing Ministries Foundation, Memphis. President Memphis Museum Inc., 1994-1995.
With United States Navy, 1944-1947, PTO. Member Society Entrepreneurs.
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Son of Thomas Leslie and Lida (Gammill ) S. Married Jane Allen Sharpe, December 28, 1948. Children: Susan, Robert Junior, Paul, Timothy.
