Judith Sharp
Judith Ann Sharp was the third child born to Lovel Lafay Adams and Jessee Garland Sharp.
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Name: Judith Ann Sharp
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Name: R. Douglas Foote
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Children: Amanda Christine Groenwold Foote (1976 - ); Andrea Christine Foote (1985 - )
JUDITH ANN SHARP FOOTE
Summit Boulevard was my life. It was beautiful and blessed. I left for college in 1966 after graduating from CPHS. I came back home in 1975, just in time to see Highway 97 take my family land and destroy it. One hundred years of cedars and natural springs destroyed by eminent domain.
The highway that now crosses Sand Springs also destroyed love seats made by my grandfather Sharp and the valleys that used to be called Prattville. However, I must admit, I don’t miss the 1930 narrow concrete bridge between Prattville and Sand Springs, since there was barely room for two cars to pass. It was narrow, and several times the water came to the bottom of the bridge. It was kind of scary.
This is called “progress” and progress has always changed the face of land and buildings. There are not very many ways of stopping progress. But if trees and land must be sacrificed, then I say, “burn the woods in a fireplace rather than a pile.”
Dad had built a pond from a natural stream that ran behind our house. The Sharp children and the next door neighbors all swam in the pond when we could talk an adult into watching over us. We built rafts to cross the pond. During the winter, the adults would check the pond to see if the ice was thick enough for us to play ice hockey. It usually must have been thick enough, because we spent many hours slipping and sliding on the ice. We also fished and gigged frogs.
Garland’s yard was used for sports of all kinds (football, baseball, etc.) The yard was large and had no stickers. Every Sunday there was a game that included all the neighborhood children and friends.
My brother, Steven Douglas Sharp, was born on September 18, 1954. Steven graduated from SSHS in 1972. He remained unmarried and died twelve days before his thirty first birthday, on September 6, 1987. We remember Steven as a person who loved children, cooked good meals for the family, laughed at funny things, and loved football games. He is buried at Woodland Cemetery.
My brother Larry Wayne Sharp married Mary Annette Hughes, July 12, 1974. They both graduated from SSHS. They lived in Mannford where their children, Aaron, Tymon, and Lydia Ann attended School.
I married a Sapulpa man, R. Douglas Foote. We have two children, Amanda Christine Groenwold Foote was born in 1976 and Andrea Christine was born in 1985. We own a beautiful eighty-year-old farm in Sapulpa.
(From Powers Family Book compiled by Georgia Powers Jennings)
Summit Boulevard was my life. It was beautiful and blessed. I left for college in 1966 after graduating from CPHS. I came back home in 1975, just in time to see Highway 97 take my family land and destroy it. One hundred years of cedars and natural springs destroyed by eminent domain.
The highway that now crosses Sand Springs also destroyed love seats made by my grandfather Sharp and the valleys that used to be called Prattville. However, I must admit, I don’t miss the 1930 narrow concrete bridge between Prattville and Sand Springs, since there was barely room for two cars to pass. It was narrow, and several times the water came to the bottom of the bridge. It was kind of scary.
This is called “progress” and progress has always changed the face of land and buildings. There are not very many ways of stopping progress. But if trees and land must be sacrificed, then I say, “burn the woods in a fireplace rather than a pile.”
Dad had built a pond from a natural stream that ran behind our house. The Sharp children and the next door neighbors all swam in the pond when we could talk an adult into watching over us. We built rafts to cross the pond. During the winter, the adults would check the pond to see if the ice was thick enough for us to play ice hockey. It usually must have been thick enough, because we spent many hours slipping and sliding on the ice. We also fished and gigged frogs.
Garland’s yard was used for sports of all kinds (football, baseball, etc.) The yard was large and had no stickers. Every Sunday there was a game that included all the neighborhood children and friends.
My brother, Steven Douglas Sharp, was born on September 18, 1954. Steven graduated from SSHS in 1972. He remained unmarried and died twelve days before his thirty first birthday, on September 6, 1987. We remember Steven as a person who loved children, cooked good meals for the family, laughed at funny things, and loved football games. He is buried at Woodland Cemetery.
My brother Larry Wayne Sharp married Mary Annette Hughes, July 12, 1974. They both graduated from SSHS. They lived in Mannford where their children, Aaron, Tymon, and Lydia Ann attended School.
I married a Sapulpa man, R. Douglas Foote. We have two children, Amanda Christine Groenwold Foote was born in 1976 and Andrea Christine was born in 1985. We own a beautiful eighty-year-old farm in Sapulpa.
(From Powers Family Book compiled by Georgia Powers Jennings)