Sharon Ann Johnson Liner was born to James Harold and Lella Johnson on April 28, 1945, in Nashville, Tennessee. She was raised in Birmingham, Alabama, and attended Shades Valley High School where she was Miss Shades Valley 1963. She graduated from Samford University in 1967, and worked for the Women’s Missionary Union in Birmingham. She married Miles Quitman Liner Jr. in 1968. They then moved to R…