Leo Bennion SHARP

                   BIRTH: Sharp Family Bible:
BLESSING:  F.H.L. Film # 026,861 Brighton Ward Records, by Bishop F. W. Schoenfeld.
MARRIAGE: F.H.L. Film #186,209, #3452. SLAKE.
DEATH: Deseret News*******

BAPTISM: F.H.L. Film #Cannon Ward Records, #6502, pt.248, by John Hall.
ENDOWMENT: F.H.L. Film #184,072, pg.721.
SEALED TO PARENTS: BIC
SEALED TO SPOUSE: F.H.L. Film #186,208, #3452. SLAKE.

OBITUARY: DEATH CLAIMS LEO B. SHARP
DEATH CLAIMS LEO BENNION SHARP
Was Prominent In Church, Business
     Leo Bennion Sharp, 47, of 1455 West Twenty-First South Street, prominent Salt Lake City business leader, died today of a heart ailment in a Salt Lake hospital.
     Mr. Sharp had been ill only a few days and death came very suddenly. At the time of the death he was actively engaged in the real estate and contracting business.
     He was also very well known throughout the entire intermountain country having recently been district manager of the Utah branch of the Federal  Land Bank of Berkeley. In addition, Mr. Sharp was prominently engaged in Church activities having served in many capacities during his life.
     Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 in the Tthirty-First Ward Chapel at 11:40 South Ninth East Street.
     Friends may call Friday night at 260 East South Temple Street from 6 to 10 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 1455 West Twenty-first South Street.
     Mr. Sharp was born June 18, 1894 in Salt Lake, a son of John A. and Rebeecca Bennion Sharp. He rreceived his early training in Salt Lake schools, graduated and attended both the Universsity of Utah and the Utah State Agricultural College, receiving his B. A. degree in agriculture at the latter. At the University of Utah, he was affiliated with the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
     He received a teaching fellowship at the Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames where he later received his master's degree. He was superintendent of the experimental station for more than three years.
     In his later life he was activelyengaged in Real Estate and Contracting until he became district manager of the Utah Branch of the federal Land Bank of Berkeley.
     He married Marcella Tuner on Dec. 12, 1917. In 1921 both he and his wife were called ot fill a mission in New Zealand where Mr. Sharp presided over the Maori Agricultural Collelge. Other church positions which he had held were stake secretary of the Pioneer Stake Sunday Schools, superintendentof the seminary in American Fork and superintendent of the Liberty Stake Sunday Schools. He had always been actively engaged in church and civic affairs.
     Survivors besides his widow include his mother, Mrs. John A. Sharp of 1180 South Eighth East Street; two daughters, Marianne and Rebecca Sharp; two sons, Hal Turner and Hugh Leo Sharp, one sister, Mary Emma Sanders, and three brothers, Jesse B., June B., and Ira B. Sharp, all of Salt Lake.
     Burial will be inthe Salt Lake City Cemetery.  Deseret News  Sep 25, 1941, p.13.