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Notes for Philip Price SHARPLES
Philip Price Sharples December 29, 1919-December 24, 2008 Philip Price Sharples died peacefully at home on December 24, 2008 in Tubac, Arizona. The cause of death was prostate cancer, a disease he had researched and fought successfully for more than 16 years. He was born at home in Haverford, Pennsylvania on December 29, 1919, to Edith and Philip Triest Sharples. A plain speaking member of the religious society of Friends (Quaker), with a lively sense of humor and penchant for high speed, classic race boats and cars, he came from a Quaker family that emigrated from England to America in 1682 with William Penn. As a child he attended the Friends School Haverford, The Episcopal Academy, and Saint George's Boarding school. He graduated from Harvard in 1942 and served as a Naval lieutenant in World War II. He ran his own company, Franklin Electronics, where he developed the first high speed printer. The machine received publicity for printing the first images of Mars sent back by the Mariner 4 probe. Philip Sharples was a lifelong yachting and boat racing enthusiast who set a world's record in the boat Bombita in 1947. He continued to participate in antique boat and car racing up to 2007. He is survived by son, Philip Hathaway Sharples, by his first wife and three children by Grace Felt Russell (deceased), Martha Brinton Sharples, Grace Sharples Cooke and Russell Price Sharples. He is also survived by his wife, Joanna Corrigan and two former wives, Jane Loew Sharples and Georgiana Pratt. He has seven grandchildren, Nathan Sharples, David Sharples, William Sharples, Caroline Daniels, Allston Daniels, Todd Cooke and Philip Cooke. In addition to a Saturday, January 10th Memorial Service at 2:00 p.m. at the Tubac Center of the Art, 9 Plaza Road, Tubac, AZ 85646 (Phone 520-398-2371) there will be a Saturday, January 24th Memorial Service at 2:00 p.m. at the Haverford Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 855 Buck Lane, Haverford, PA 19041. The family asks that donations in lieu of flowers be sent to: The Antique Boat Museum, 750 Mary Street, Clayton, NY 13624, 315-686-4104, St. Andrews Children's Clinic, 969 Country Club Dr., Nogales, AZ, 85621 or Friends of Health, 528 Pugh Street, State College, PA 16801, 814-865-3421.
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