Terrace Hill School, Waterford, 1919
Last updated: 03 Jan 2011
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This is Ina M. Sharp
Identified 30 Dec 2010 by her son Howard Ray Lawrence  

From Howard: Ina Mabel Sharp, was born 06 Feb 1895 to Theodore M. “Frank” Sharp and his wife Martha M. Claxton, at Red Lion Inn in Waterford. After her mother died in 1901 Ina was raised by her maternal grandfather, Edward J. Claxton in Waterford. Graduating with a diploma in commercial studies from Terrace Hill School in 1919, Ina worked as a bookkeeper in Brantford and Detroit before marrying Ray Palmer Lawrence on 28 Jun 1930 at Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. They settled in San Francisco where their only child was born in 1936 and where for the next 45 years they operated a hotel then an apartment business. Ina kept in touch with Norfolk County family and friends reading Simcoe Reformer and Waterford Star and occasionally visiting Waterford with her family. She died 25 Feb 1975 in San Francisco. 

 
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