William Hardy

William V. Hardy, 75, of Rock Island, died Friday, July 15, 2005, at Trinity Medical Center-West Campus, Rock Island. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Rock Island. Private burial will be in St. Vincent's Cemetery, La Salle, Ill. Visitation is 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at the Wheelan Funeral Home, Rock Island, where a rosary will be recited at 6 p.m. Memorials may be made to the Womens Choice Center, Bettendorf.
William was born Dec. 19, 1929, in Chicago, a son of Frank G. and Mary A. Rezen Hardy.
He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Rock Island, for 50 years. For the last eight years he was a resident of the Ninth Street Place, an ARC group home in Rock Island. William was self taught at the piano and organ, and loved to play the hundreds of hymns he had learned over the years. His strength was his faith.
He is survived by his brother, Patrick, Rock Island; and his nieces and nephews, Mary Beth Kunath, Kate Leenknecht Hardy, Matthew and William Hardy.