Mrs. Sharon \u201cKitten\u201d Ellen Grantham, 61, passed away on April 19, 2019, in Perry. Sharon was born July 10, 1957, at the fire tower in Salem, Fla., to Mr.\nHalbert Mikel Grantham and Mrs. Sallie Lee Grantham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sharon was a corrections officer with the Taylor Co. Sheriff\u2019s\nOffice over a period of 13 years. She\nwas well known in the community for her work with 4H, a Sharpshooter\nInstructor, an NRA and hunter safety instructor, a lifetime member\nof National Wild Turkey Federation, an avid hunter and outdoors woman and\na conservationist. She was also known for her wild shenanigans and her gypsy\nsoul. And she was crazy\nabout her girls and her grandbabies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sharon was preceded\nin death by her parents Mr.\nHalbert and Sallie Grantham and\nher brother Terry Wayne Grantham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is survived by\nthree children Becky Strickland (Lee), Bry Hedricks, and Lindsey Shaw Murray\n(Scott), grandchildren David Miles, Levi Strickland, Chris Hedricks, Jeremy\nHedricks, William Hedricks; Emerson \u201cMaynard\u201d Murray, two great grandchildren\nMason Lawson and Sawyer Lawson, one sister Sallie \u201cMonkey\u201d Grantham as well as\na host of nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, at\n5:00 p.m. at Joe P. Burns Funeral Home with Bro. Cricket Watson officiating. All arrangements are under the\ndirection of Burns Funeral Home\nof Perry. In lieu of\nflowers donations may be made to the Taylor Co. Special Olympics.\n\nFriends may sign the online\nguest book at www.joepburnsfuneralhomes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mrs. Sharon \u201cKitten\u201d Ellen Grantham, 61, passed away on April 19, 2019, in Perry. Sharon was born July 10, 1957, at the fire tower in Salem, Fla., to Mr. Halbert Mikel Grantham and Mrs. Sallie Lee Grantham. Sharon was a corrections officer with the Taylor Co. Sheriff\u2019s Office over a period of 13 years. She was well known in the community for her work with 4H, a Sharpshooter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22642,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22641\/revisions\/22642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}