Tom C. Sharp, Jr., 90, Executive Director Emeritus of the Tennessee Pharmacists Association, the voice of pharmacy in Tennessee for more than four decades, died Monday, December 23, 2013 at Nashville Alive Hospice. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 1:00 P.M. at St. Peter's Episcopal Church. Burial will follow in St. John's Churchyard, Ashwood with military honors provided by Herbert Griffin American Legion Post 19. The family will visit with friends Saturday from 11:00 A.M. until 12:45 P.M. at the church. Oakes & Nichols Funeral Directors are assisting the family with arrangements. The family suggests memorials to the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, 881 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163 or St. James The Less Episcopal Church, 411 West Due West, Madison, TN 37115. Condolences may be offered online at www.oakesandnichols.com. The Nashville native was the son of the late Tom Clayton Sharp, Sr. and Sina Russell Sharp. He and his brother Charles Russell Sharp, who both became pharmacists, grew up working with their father at Sharp's Drugstore in East Nashville. Dr. Sharp would later succeed his father, Tom C. Sharp, Sr., as leader of the Tennessee Pharmacists Association. Dr. Sharp, an Isaac Litton High School graduate, interrupted his collegiate career at Tennessee Technological University to enlist in the U. S. Army during World War II, where he served in a Signal Battalion stationed in New Guinea. At the end of the war, he completed his pharmacy degree at the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy in Memphis and returned to Nashville to practice pharmacy. Dr. Sharp served for several years as Chief Pharmacist at the Tennessee Tuberculosis Hospital. During his three-decade tenure with TPA, from 1964 to 1994, he served as mentor to countless students and recently-graduated pharmacists. He was the recipient of several professional honors, including the highest honor bestowed upon a pharmacist, the Bowl of Hygeia Award in 1994. Dr. Sharp was most appreciative of the "Tom C. Sharp Pharmacist of the Year" plaque presented to him in 2000, originally named in honor of his father. After his retirement, he concentrated on collecting and organizing the historical documents and photos he had amassed over his career, and wrote the book The History of the Tennessee Pharmacists Association. In the course of his career, his influence went beyond pharmacy and beyond the borders of Tennessee. He served as President of the National Association of Pharmacy Association Executives in 1978 and 1979 and as President of the Tennessee Society of Association Executives in 1970. He was also a founding member of St. James the Less Episcopal Church in Madison, TN where he served in many capacities. Survivors include his wife of sixty-three years, Evelyn Holeman Sharp of Nashville; brother, Charles R. (Julia) Sharp of Cottontown; daughter, Marilyn (Tom) Webster of Columbia; son, Tom C. (Jennifer) Sharp, III of Knoxville; grandsons, Thomas Crosby Webster, IV of Smyrna and Jonathan Sharp (Kristin) Webster of Brentwood; and three great granddaughters. The family would like to thank the staffs at Park Manor Senior Lifestyle Community and Nashville Alive Hospice.