Obit for Hardcastle, Joe Smith - Oklahoma County OK

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::Lindale Cemetery--Lindale TX

Joe Smith Hardcastle

LINDALE - Joe Smith Hardcastle, 96, died Monday, Nov. 15, 2004, in 
Grapevine.

Services will be at 1 p.m. today in Caudle-Rutledge Funeral Home with 
Dr. Bruce Cresson officiating. Burial will be in Lindale Cemetery.

Mrs. Hardcastle was born April 4, 1908, in Lindale the daughter of 
Mattie Louise Edwards and Samuel Richard Smith. She attended schools 
in Lindale and graduated from Classen High School in Oklahoma City. 
She attended Texas Woman's University and later received her bachelor 
of science and master's degrees in education from West Texas State 
University. She taught in several schools in Wheeler County between 
1928 and 1949. She taught in the Amarillo public schools from 1949 to 
1973 and later at St. Joseph's Catholic School until 1981.

She was a member of the Methodist Church and later the Baptist 
church. She was an active member of First Baptist Church in Amarillo 
from 1949 to 1991 and Columbus Avenue Baptist Church in Waco until 
her death.
Joe was an active member of Delta Kappa Gamma Society, Kappa Kappa 
Iota, The Genealogical Society, Society of Colonial Dames, Daughters 
of the American Revolution, Daughters of the Confederacy and did 
volunteer service for the senior citizens. In 2001, she completed and 
published a book on her family genealogy.

She was preceded in death by two sisters; four half-sisters; three 
half-brothers; and two great-granddaughters.

Survivors include two sons, Harold Hardcastle and wife, Peggy, and 
Donald Hardcastle and wife, Dana; a daughter, Joe Ann Standlee and 
husband, Bill; a sister, Miriam Vale; 10 grandchildren; and 16 great-
grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to Alzheimer's Association or a 
favorite charity.

Amarillo Globe-News, Nov. 18, 2004
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