Jay · Joe and Ruby’s second son
At a glance
- Born: 7 July 1943, Fresno, California
- Parents: Joseph Sharmer II and Ruby E. Wilson
- Brother and sister: Joseph III and Laurel
- Married: Nancy Karr, of Carbondale, Illinois; they were married for 45 years
- Sons: Jay Myron Sharmer Jr. and John Randall “Randy” Sharmer
- Died: 13 November 2006
Life story
Jay is the younger of the two boys in the family’s home movies from Planada, and appears with his brother and sister in Laurel’s recollections. His middle name came from his uncle by marriage, Myron Sager, Aunt Larry’s husband, who took in Joe and his sisters after their mother died (A Night Train to Denver).
His life story is still to be written. If you knew him, please share a memory.
Sources: California Birth Index and U.S. Social Security files (NUMIDENT, Death Index) on FamilySearch, for his birth, parents and death; obituary of Nancy Karr Sharmer, 2022, for his marriage and his sons’ names.
Photos
Letters, records & stories
- The Sharmer Children in Planada (home movies)
- “We Treat, No Tricks!” and A Visit to Aunt Larry
Family
- Father: Joseph Sharmer II
- Mother: Ruby E. Wilson Sharmer
- Wife: Nancy Karr Sharmer (died 6 August 2022, Pahrump, Nevada)
- Sons: Jay Myron Sharmer Jr. and John Randall “Randy” Sharmer
Still to find
- Date and place of his marriage to Nancy
- Place of death
