Hidalgo County Texas Archives Biographies.....Hardin, Donna March 6, 1927 - March 6, 2012
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Author: Donna Hardin

Maquoketa Sentinel Press, February 29, 2012 

HARDIN TO OBSERVE HER 85th BIRTHDAY 

Donna Hardin of Maquoketa, will celebrate her 85th birthday on March 6, 2012. 
Her parents were Lester and Grace (Schocker) Scott. She married Leon Suthers 
in August of 1946. He passed away in 1986. She later married William Hardin in 
1988. He passed away in 2010. 

Donna attended Baldwin High School and then graduated from Maquoketa High 
School. She started teaching after just one summer of college at Mt. St. Clare 
in Clinton and then chipped away at night school and summer school until 
earning her B. A. degree from Marycrest College in Davenport, 

She taught for 42 years, her first year as Miss Scott, the next 40 years as 
Mrs. Suthers and her last year as Mrs. Hardin. She is honored to have taught 
one year in the North Bend country school house, where her grandfather, A. L. 
Schocker had taught as a young man in the late 1800's. For fourteen years she 
taught in one-room country schools and then 28 years in the Maquoketa 
Community schools in town. Her first year in town her third grade class was 
held in the basement of the public library, then briefly at the Community 
Center, and then at Briggs Elementary. 

Donna has spent 23 winters in Donna, Texas. She has enjoyed fishing, square 
dancing, playing shuffleboard, camping and traveling and still plays cards. 
She has been a member of the Roadrunners Camping group for many years. Donna 
has a daughter, Connie (and Don) Patridge, both retired teachers living in 
Davenport, IA; a grandson Daniel in Rochester, Minn., and a grandson, Adam 
(and Laura) in Cheyenne, Wyo., and two great-grandchildren, David and Allison. 




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