Mr. Morgan Thomas Sharpe Jr., 81, died Friday, Sept. 25, 2009 at Doctors Hospital after a lengthy illness.

Funeral services were held 11 a.m., Monday, Sept. 28, 2009 at the Millen Baptist Church with Revs. Maurice Crowder and David Wheeler officiating. Interment followed in the Millen Cemetery.

Mr. Sharpe was born and lived his entire life in Jenkins County. He played on the Millen High School 1946 State Championship football team. He graduated from Georgia Military College (GMC) High School in 1949. He was a long distance truck driver for 40 years, concluding with retirement from Weyerhaeuser after 26 years of service. He enjoyed fellowship with his friends at the Eight O'clock Coffee Club. He was a deacon for many years of the Millen Baptist Church where he attended the Boch Sunday School Class.

Mr. Sharpe was preceded in death by his son, Stephen Howard Sharpe, two brothers, Robert (Bobby) Sharpe and Lindsey Sharpe, a baby sister, Doris Sharpe, and his parents, Ida Belle Burke Sharpe and Morgan T. Sharpe Sr.

Survivors include his wife, Joanne Cowart Sharpe whom he married June 15, 1952; a son, Ricky Sharpe; two daughters, Brenda Sharpe and Lisa (Mike) Birdwel, all of Millen; a brother, Julian "Simp" (Barbara) Sharpe of Milledgeville; sister-in-law, Claudine Sharpe of Millen; grandchildren, Shelly Ann Sharpe, Augusta, Allison Sharpe Birdwell, Cleveland, Jackson Richard Sharpe, Atlanta, Stephen Cody Birdwell and Morgan Cale Birdwell, both of Millen; great-grandchildren, Steven Sharpe, Millen, Paige Richardson, Augusta, Cayden Sharpe, Augusta, Megan McMillan and Morgan Nix, both of Cleveland; three nieces and two nephews.

Active Pallbearers were Mike McMillan, Charles Sharpe, Tim Sharpe, Mike Craft, Brook Bowers, Ed Fuller, Tracy Edenfield and Robert Oglesby.

Honorary Pallbearers were members of the BOCH Sunday School Class, the Eight O'clock Coffee Club and H. T. Clifton and David Denham.

Crowe-Fields Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.