Perthshire woman Jean Sharp has died at the age of 101.
She was born in November 1910 in Torryburn Manse, Fife, where her father, the Rev Alexander Cross, was minister.
In 1919 the family moved to the parish of Muthill in Perthshire.
Mrs Sharp attended Morrison’s Academy in Crieff. On leaving school she gained a diploma from the Glasgow College of Domestic Science, and went on to take up a post as assistant matron at John Watson School in Edinburgh.
In 1934 she married the Rev Hamish Sharp, also from Muthill. They moved to Kilbowie Church, Clydebank. Their first daughter was born in 1935, followed by a son in 1939.
After the Clydebank blitz in 1940 the family moved to Redgorton Parish in Perthshire, where a further two sons were born.
In 1945 Mr Sharp was called to St Mark’s Church, Perth. The couple had their second daughter during this time. Mr Sharp remained there until his retirement in 1978, and sadly died the following year.
Mrs Sharp was involved with the Church of Scotland Home Missions, both locally and at Church of Scotland headquarters in Edinburgh. She visited Guilds throughout Tayside and Fife speaking on this work.
In her youth Mrs Sharp was a talented gymnast and an excellent tennis and hockey player.
In her thirties she took up bowling and in the early 1960s played at international level for Scotland.
Her bowling club was Kinnoull, where she was president of the ladies’ club several times and was secretary for a number of years. She was past president of the East of Scotland Women’s Bowling Association.
Mrs Sharp is survived by four of her five children, 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.