Obituary of HARDY MATTHEW MEREDITH, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date: September 29, 1999, Wednesday

Headline: Area Deaths
Sub-Headline:  Hardy Matthew Meredith

Hardy Matthew Meredith, 80, of Baton Rouge, died Sunday, September 19, 1999, 
at the Baton Rouge General Hospital in that city.

He graduated from Olla-Standard High School in 1936.  He was born on Jan. 15, 
1919, in the Beech Creek area of Winn Parish.

He was a retired Chief Hearing Officer with the La. Department of Public 
Safety, a charter member of the Goodwood Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, and a 
member of the Columbia Masonic Lodge No. 164.

He was also a veteran of World War II, where he was awarded the Purple Heart 
for serving in the South Pacific.

Services were held at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 21, at the First Baptist Church 
in Columbia with the Revs. Arthur Achord and Glenn Carroll Meredith 
officiating.

Interment followed in the Welcome Home Cemetery near Grayson under direction 
of Riser Funeral Home of Columbia.

Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Audrey Thompson Meredith of Baton 
Rouge.

Pallbearers were Frank Jones, Marion Jones, Charles Plattsmier, Charles 
Sandifer, Freddy Thompson and Dean Meredith.