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About Delbert Vincent Underwood:

Rev. Delbert Vincent Underwood, 90, of Gainesville, Florida, formerly of Beaver Creek, died Sunday, April 4, 1999, at his residence. Born on Beaver Creek, March 10, 1910, he was the son of Creetus and Lucy Sharp. He was the pastor of the American Gospel Tabernacle in Gainesville from 1959 to 1961. He was ordained at the Wesley Fellowship and received his doctorate from Freedom Seminary.
Rev. Underwood was a retired carpenter involved with the maintenance of the Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville. He also served as a business agent for the Carptenters Union Local #1278. He also worked as a building inspector for the Veterans Administration. He was a Shriner and a Thirty-second degree Freemason at the Masonic Lodge #41 in Gainesville. He was also an Elder at Christ United Methodist Church in Gainesville and was also active in foreign missionary work.
Rev. Underwood was preceded in death by his wife, Ruby Eiland Underwood, and a daughter, Frieda Marie Underwood. He is survived by three daughters, Marlene Pope, of Childersburg, Alabama, Mary Kreft, of Greenville, South Carolina, and Martha Stephens, of Gainesville; three brothers, Arlie Sharp, Harold Sharp and Julian Sharp, all of West Virginia; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
Services were held Thursday at Christ United Methodist Church, with burial in Forest Meadows Cemetery, Gainesville. Memorial donations in Rev. Underwood’s name may be made to Mission Society for United Methodist, P.O. Box 922637, Norcross, GA, 30092. Please designate gift “Jackson Support.”

About Freida Marie Underwood:

Name: Freida Maree Underwood
Death date: 13 Feb 1930
Death place: Odessa Precinct, Pasco, Fla.
Gender: Female
Race or color (on document): white
Race or color (expanded): White
Age at death: 12 hours
Birth date: 13 Feb 1930
Birth place: Odessa, Fla
Marital status: Single
Father name: Delbert V. Underwood
Father birth place: Huntersville, W.Va.
Mother name: Ruby Ealand
Mother birth place: Tampa, Fla.
Residence: Odessa, Fla.
Cemetery name: Elfern
Burial date: 14 Feb 1930