Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Hardy, Richard August 10, 2012
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  Published in Lebanon Daily News on August 14, 2012 
  LEBANON Richard Hardy, Commander, United States Navy retired, died on Friday, 
  August 10, 2012 in Lebanon. He was born in Richard City, Tenn. on August 29, 
  1922, the son of Charles Edson and Marion Faville Hardy. Mr. Hardy attended 
  schools in Richard City and Bethlehem. He graduated from Liberty High School in 
  Bethlehem in 1940. He attended Lehigh University and graduated from the United 
  States Naval Academy in 1944, in the accelerated class of 1945. He served on 
  the USS New Jersey in the Pacific, during the last year of World War II and in 
  Naval Air fighter squadrons on the USS Kearsarge in Korea, the USS Franklin D. 
  Roosevelt and the USS Randolph. After resigning from the Navy in 1955 he was 
  employed by the Minneapolis Honeywell Corporation in Minneapolis, Minn., from 
  1955 to 1957, and by the General Electric Company in Pittsfield, Mass., from 
  1957 to 1986. In Lenox, where he lived until 1988, Mr. Hardy served on the 
  Finance Committee, the Waste Treatment Plant Building Committee, the Kiwanis 
  Club and the United Way of Berkshire County. Mr. Hardy was preceded in death by 
  his wife of 65 years, the former Phyllis Kratz of Allentown, whom he married on 
  May 16, 1945. He is survived by three daughters, Andrea Gustafson of Katy, 
  Texas, Paula Howell of Alpharetta, Ga., and Carla Dowd of Lebanon; two sons, 
  Thomas R. Hardy of Waltham, Mass., David R. Hardy of Waccabuc, N.Y.; eight 
  grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. There will be no calling hours. 
  Paul L. Gravenor Home For Funerals, Inc., is in charge of the arrangements. A 
  memorial service will be held at Pleasantview Retirement Community in Manheim 
  on August 27th at 10 a.m. In addition, a graveside service will be held in 
  Lenox, Mass., at a date to be determined. In lieu of flowers, the family asks 
  that donations be made in memory of Richard Hardy to the Pleasantview 
  Retirement Community, Manheim, Pa.
  
  Published in Lebanon Daily News on August 14, 2012 
  
   
  
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