Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) world, the challenge begins at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with the top 10 new innovations progressing to the finals at Necker Island where Branson joins the judging panel along with technology figures and investors from Silicon Valley. The Necker Cup, an exhibition tennis tournament held at the end of the tennis season, has been held on the island annually since 2012. In February 2017, former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle visited Necker as guests of Sir Richard Branson. On August 22, 2011, The Great House burned down in a blaze believed to be
Necker–Sharpe Funeral Home building, built in 1930, was one of the first in the United States to be built solely as a funeral home, and the last of the Necker branches to bear the name. Necker–Sharpe Funeral Home Necker–Sharpe Funeral Home is funeral home in Union City, New Jersey. William Necker was born in West Hoboken, New Jersey on November 12, 1870, his parents the eldest son of Christopher Necker and Louisa Kienle, natives of Germany. Circumstances required stop attending school at age of twelve to work in piano-making in the establishment of the Braumuller Piano Company in New York City. During his