Verdie E. (Metts) Hardy
Verdie E. (Metts) Hardy, age 88, passed peacefully away on Thursday, August 21, 2014 at her residence in Dunbar, Pa., with loving family at her side.
Verdie was born on Tuesday, May 11, 1926 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Verdie was a former employee of the Connellsville Area School District and fought hard to become their first full-time female Custodian.
She loved her grand children, gardening and Bingo.
Preceding her in death were her parents, Peter H. Metts and Elizabeth (Roupe) Metts; a first husband, Meredith Paul Hardy; a second husband, John R. Hardy; two daughters, infant daughter Brenda Lee Hardy and Freeda Joyce Steele; and ten siblings, Peter, Joseph, Walter, Frank and Arthur Metts, Goldie Champion, Stella Umbel, Della Springer, Pearl Smalley and Sylvia Jean Tichnor.
Surviving are four sons: Paul E. Hardy and his wife Pam of Buffalo, New York, Richard Owen Hardy and companion Margie Eiford, Albert S. Hardy and his wife Lynn and John Hardy Jr. and wife Alexa all of Dunbar, Pa.; 10 grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren; a brother, Kenneth Metts and his wife Barbara of North Ridgeville, Ohio; and a special friend, Rich Rockey.
Friends will be received in the SHELL FUNERAL HOME INC., 164 South Mount Vernon Avenue, Uniontown, Pa., today from Noon to 2 and 4 to 8 p.m. and Monday, August 25, 2014 until 11 a.m., the hour of Service with Pastor Lee Maley officiating.
Interment will follow, Pleasant View Cemetery.
The family extends their thanks to Amedisys Hospice for their loving care and a special thank you to Carol and Chelsea.