Euhla M. (Hendrickson) Sharp Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Funeral Services for Euhla will be held on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 10:30 a.m. at Stockholm Lutheran Church in rural Shickley, Nebraska with Pastor Jonathan Jensen officiating. Visitation will be held on Monday, January 16, 2017 from 1:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. with family greeting public from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at Farmer & Son Funeral Home in Geneva. Graveside services will be conducted from the Stockholm Swedish Cemetery in rural Shickley. Memorials are to be directed to the family for a later designation. Euhla Mae Louise (Hendrickson) Sharp began her life on August 8, 1928, at home in Shickley, Nebraska, the sixth of seven children born to Albert George and Lillie Sophia (Ljungdahl) Hendrickson. She passed away on January 11, 2017, at the age of 88 years, 5 months, 3 days. Euhla Mae (“Euhlie”) was baptized at Stockholm Lutheran Church, located just a half mile south of her family’s farm. She and her siblings would often walk across the field to attend Sunday School. She attended confirmation classes at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Ong, Nebraska, through a joint effort between the two churches, with her confirmation taking place at Stockholm in 1943. Euhlie attended District 86, a rural school district east of her home, where she once again walked across the fields with her siblings to school each day. In order to attend high school, she and her older sister, Zelpha, stayed with a family in Shickley during the week in exchange for chores plus a small fee. After spending her last two years commuting to high school with her younger brother, Richard, Euhlie graduated from Shickley Public School in 1946. She then went on to Luther College in Wahoo, Nebraska, where she sang and traveled with the college choir. After graduating from Luther College with a two-year degree in 1948, Euhlie moved to Chicago, Illinois, to work as a pediatric nurse. It was here that she met her husband, William R. (“Bill”) Sharp. The two were married at Stockholm in 1952, the only one of Euhlie’s siblings to be married at the church of their youth. As Bill was serving in the United States Navy, they moved to California for a short while before settling permanently back in Chicago. The couple celebrated more than 60 years of married life together. Upon her return to Illinois, Euhlie took a position with the Chicago & North Western Railway. She spent well over 30 years at this job, finally retiring in the 1990s. One of the great benefits of her employment was that she could take the train home to Nebraska, which she did regularly, spending time with her brothers and sister who still lived in the area and spoiling her many nieces and nephews. In 1972, Bill and Euhlie had a son, William Erik. Euhlie loved being a mother and spent countless hours doing everything she could for “Billy.” She chauffeured him to Boy Scout meetings, strongly encouraging him to obtain his Eagle Scout award; she was instrumental in getting him involved in youth hockey and baseball; she stood in line for hours as part of the Wilmette, IL, Sailing Beach lottery for boat dock berths when Bill’s interest turned to sailing; she sent him to Nebraska for two or more weeks every summer so that he could experience farmwork and small-town life; and she moved her family out of the city to the suburbs in order to enhance his educational opportunities. But most of all, she loved her son with every fiber of her being. Euhla Hendrickson Sharp was preceded in death by her husband, Bill; her parents, Albert and Lillie Hendrickson; three sisters, Norma Hendrickson, Melba Replogle and husband Dell, and Zelpha Burbank and husband Randy; three brothers, Maurice and wife Joan, LeeRoy and wife Sheila, and Richard; brother-in-law, Richard Sharp and wife Patricia. She is survived by her son, Bill, and numerous beloved nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

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Euhla M. (Hendrickson) Sharp

August 8, 1928 - January 11, 2017