Elsie Hardin, 91, of Medon, died Tuesday morning, March 22, 2005 at West Tennessee Transitional Care in Jackson.
The widow of Yarris Manley Hardin, Sr., who died May 21, 1996 after 61 years of marriage, she was a production worker at Kilgore until 1975. Mrs. Hardin was born August 15, 1913, in Hardeman County, daughter of the late William Jefferson Canovan and Alpha Elizabeth Froman Canovan and lived here all of her life. She was a member of New Union Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School for over 40 years.
Services were 2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 24 at New Union Baptist
Church with Gene Stafford and Stan Smith officiating. Burial was in
New Union Cemetery near Medon. Shackelford Funeral Directors of
Bolivar were in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include two daughters, Helen Blancq of Stuttgart, Arkansas
and Ann Taylor of Medon; one son, Yarris Manley Hardin, Jr. of
Henderson; one brother, Charles Canovan of Jackson; 9 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren and 1 great, great grandchild. She was preceded in death by one daughter, Irene Hardin; three brothers, Frank, Tilman and Cecil Canovan and two sisters, Aliene Cochran and Dane Brown.