Loretta Cecil Sharp

Enfield, Conn. — Services for Loretta Cecil Sharp, 88, Enfield, were Saturday in Enfield. Burial was in Allentown, Pa.Mrs. Sharp died Monday, Nov. 24, 2008, in Enfield, Conn.She was born Sept. 11, 1920, in Allentown, Pa., the daughter of Paul William and Sarah Jean Krommes.She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Cedar Crest College in Allentown, where she was an English teacher from 1942 to 1946. She lived in Lawrence and was a housewife from 1968 to January 2008.She married Charles William Sharp in 1946 in Atlantic City, N.J. He died in February 1997. She was also preceded in death by a son, Timothy, in 2002. Survivors include three sons, Gregory, Lawrence, Kan., Theodore, Enfield, and John, Honeybrook, Pa.; a daughter, Sally Sorensen, Los Angeles; a sister, Sally Schuler, Wilmington, Del.; 17 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.