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Rome News-Tribune -page 2 - October 31, 1977

Mr. Hardin

George Richard (Dicky) Hardin, Jr., 44, Rome Rte. 9, Alabama Road, died suddenly Sunday morning.

He was born in Floyd County May 22, 1933, son of the late George Richard Hardin Sr. and Fannie Hart Hardin. He had spent most of his life in Floyd County and for the past 21 years had been employed with Georgia Kraft Co. as a pipe fitter. He was a veteran of the Korean conflict, having served in the U.S. Navy. He was a member of Coosa Masonic Lodge 622 F. & A.M., Coosa Band Club, Local 766, Eagle Club and McClain-Sealock Post 136 American Legion. Two sisters and two brothers died earlier. Survivors include the widow, the former Sue Broome, to whom he was married Feb. 26, 1954, one daughter, Teresa Hardin, Rome; five sisters, Mrs. Ruby Pearson, Mrs. Sybil Harrison and Mrs. Lucy Parks, Mentone, Ala., Mrs. Hazel Perry, Greensboro, N.C., and Mrs. Katie Higgins, Marietta; two brothers, Arzo and Homer Hardin, Rome.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Talley Brothers Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Amos Adams officiating. Interment will be in Oaknoll Memorial Gardens with Coosa Masons 622 F. & A.M. in charge of graveside rites.

Pallbearers will be Harold Dillingham, George Gaskin, Max Shaw, Mac Tolbert, Harold Lee and Ed Davis. Honorary pallbearers will be Darry Pilkington, Jim Culpepper, Shelby Sims, J. Sanford Payne, and employees of the pipe shop at Georgia Kraft Co.

The family will receive friends in the funeral home from 7-9 p.m. today, and at other times will be at the residence.

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