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UT Botanist Jack Sharp Dies (380)

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Dr. Aaron Jack Sharp, world-renowned botany professor and co-author of the popular guidebook “Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers,” died Sunday. He was 94.  Services are scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Unitarian Church on Kingston Pike.  Sharp, a member of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville faculty since 1929, continued until recently to work