Kansas City, Missouri
Marie Earle Elam Hardy, age 92, died Sunday, April 21, 2013, at Garden Valley Nursing Home in Kansas City. Born on October 2, 1920, she spent her childhood and teenage years in Greenville, MS, graduating from Greenville High School in 1936. She lived in several states throughout her adult life...
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Remembering my mother after returning from a trip to Greenville to bury her ashes next to her parents and amid many other relatives who died so long ago. My sisters and I are grateful that we were able to honor this, our mother's last request.
Margot Ferguson
June 30, 2013 | Kansas City, MO
I am so sorry to hear about Marie's death. She was a grand, elegant, and intellectually challenging woman whose acquaintance I treasured. My sympathy to her family.
Addie Dietrich
May 09, 2013 | K.C, MO
Mamarie gave us the greatest legacy of all, six beautiful, courageous, intelligent, strong women. Each of them embodies her unique love of life, either through deep appreciation for music, or the fierce desire to face each battle in life armed with knowledge. I see her in each of them - and her grandchildren and great grandchildren.
These are gifts she gave that will forever be part of all her family, and all those who knew and loved her.
She will always be in my...
Lisa Llamas
April 29, 2013 | Martinez, CA
My dear Mother's death was a gentle one, dignified and peaceful; she had already been longing for it for many, many months before it finally did come, inasmuch as her physical strength had almost totally abandoned her, though her mind remained largely unaffected. Up until the very end she was surrounded by the loving care of those of my five sisters who presently live in Kansas City (where she herself had taken up residence more than 20 years ago). She was aware of her good fortune in being...
Cathy Hardy-Pouligny
April 28, 2013 | Joué Du Bois, FRANCE