Helen Anna Sharples

SHARPLES, HELEN ANNA (REINHARDT), 86, of Preston Drive, died Monday at home. She was the beloved wife of the late Francis J. Sharples.

Born in Staten Island, NY, she was a daughter of the late Ernest E. Reinhardt Sr. and Helen L. (Hinson) Reinhardt.

She had been employed as an instructor and a steward with Leviton Manufacturing Company for over twenty five years. Mrs. Sharples was a communicant of Saints Rose and Clement Parish, where she was a member of the Rosary and Altar Society. She loved traveling, gardening, dancing and her family.

She was the beloved mother of Celia McCullough of Providence, Francis A. 'Butch' Sharples and his wife Patricia of Westland, Michigan, and Roberta Sharples of Warwick; the sister of Marion Anderson of Garrett, Illinois; the sister in law of Florence Patenaude; the grandmother of James McCullough, Elizabeth Stewart, Frederick McCullough, Alexandra Sharples, Zachary Sharples, and Colin Sharples; the great grandmother of Travis Stewart, Peter Stewart, Althea Denton, Eliana Stewart, Richard Stewart, Mark Stewart, and Johna Siegel. She was the mother of the late Lorraine Sharples and the sister of the late Emmett L., Ernest, Diana, Emmett R., Charles, Roberta and Russell Reinhardt.

Her funeral will be held Friday at 9 a.m. from THE URQUHART-MURPHY FUNERAL HOME, 800 Greenwich Avenue, Rt. 5, Greenwood, Warwick, (Exit 12A on I-95) with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in St. Clement Church, 111 Long St., Warwick. Burial will follow in The Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Exeter. Relatives and friends are invited and may call Thursday 5-8 p.m. In lieu of flowers, gifts in her memory to The Parkinson Disease Association, 455 Tollgate Rd., Warwick, RI 02886 would be appreciated. www.murphyfuneralhomes.org.