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BETHEL, Mo. * The Rev. Charles "Charlie" Sharpe, the millionaire founder of a rural Missouri Christian school where a state raid over discipline tactics led to years of lawsuits, has died.
The Rev. Sharpe died Wednesday (Feb. 1, 2017) at age 89. The Heartland community website says he had cardiac and renal problems.
The Rev. Sharpe founded Ozark National Life Insurance Co. in Kansas City in 1964. In 1996, he opened the Heartland community in a remote area of northeastern Missouri, about 170 miles northwest of St. Louis. The community includes several businesses, homes, a dairy farm, Heartland...