{"id":108881,"date":"2026-01-21T11:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=108881"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:35:03","slug":"sharpe-raymond-age-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2026\/01\/sharpe-raymond-age-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpe, Raymond (Age 73)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2026\/01\/d0f7cc1a-r.-sharpe-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108882\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ray Sharpe passed away at the age 73 on Monday, January 19th at the Soldiers\u2019 Memorial Hospital, Orillia.<br><br>Ray is survived by his beloved wife JoAnn, his children Courtney &amp; Nathan Harbridge, Trent &amp; Lateasha, and Troy &amp; Kym Valiant, and by his grandchildren Colton, Lark, Sawyer, Livia, Bryson, and Ivy. Brother-in-law of Jack &amp; Margaret Oesch, and Mary Lee Oesch. He will be missed by his niece Cheryl Smith &amp; Corey and by several nieces and nephews.<br><br>Following cremation the family will honour Ray with a celebration of life at the Coldwater Legion, Coldwater on Saturday January 24th from 1-4pm. Memories will be shared at 2pm. Also in the spring or summer a celebration of life will be held in Listowel.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/coldwaterfuneralhome.com\/tribute\/details\/1025\/Raymond-Sharpe\/obituary.html#tribute-start\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/coldwaterfuneralhome.com\/tribute\/details\/1025\/Raymond-Sharpe\/obituary.html#tribute-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click HERE to read full obituary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ray Sharpe passed away at the age 73 on Monday, January 19th at the Soldiers\u2019 Memorial Hospital, Orillia. Ray is survived by his beloved wife JoAnn, his children Courtney &amp; Nathan Harbridge, Trent &amp; Lateasha, and Troy &amp; Kym Valiant, and by his grandchildren Colton, Lark, Sawyer, Livia, Bryson, and Ivy. Brother-in-law of Jack &amp;","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11772,11771],"class_list":["post-108881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-coldwater-funeral-home","tag-sharpe"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 10:55:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2026\/01\/sharpe-raymond-age-73\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108883,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108881\/revisions\/108883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}