Donald Lee Hardesty
1933 - 2015 (82 years)
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Name Donald Lee Hardesty Birth 6 Feb 1933 Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, USA 
Gender Male Death 31 Aug 2015 Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, USA Burial St. Anthony Catholic Church Cemetery in St. Anthony, IN Patriarch & Matriarch 
Charles Clinton Hardesty, b. 1869, Daviess County, Kentuckyd. 3 Nov 1936, Union County, Kentucky (Age 67 years) (Grandfather) 
Susan Virginia Willett, b. 14 Sep 1878, Waverly, Union County, Kentuckyd. 19 Feb 1948, Union County, Kentucky (Age 69 years) (Grandmother) Person ID I4610 1665 GOUGH/GOFF (US-MD-STM/US-VA-LOU) I-Y6902-A Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
Father Marvin Hardesty, b. 1900, Kentucky d. Yes, date unknown Mother Vera Kaster, b. 1909, Kentucky d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F2305 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Irma Hedinger Marriage Abt 1954 Children 1. Donna Hardesty Family ID F2299 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
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Notes - Donald Lee Hardesty
Evansville, Ind.
Donald Lee Hardesty, 82, of Evansville, Indiana, passed away on Monday, August 31, 2015 at his home surrounded by his family.
Donald was born in Evansville, Indiana on February 6, 1933 to the late Martha Vera (Kaster) and Marvin Leander Hardesty, Sr. He served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War for four year as a Meteorologist on Shemya Island in the Aleutians. He was the owner and operator of Hardesty Welding Supplies. Donald was a member of Rolling Hills Country Club since 1962. He loved to play golf and shot his age over 130 times from the regular men's tees, the most recent of which was shooting 79 at age eighty. Donald was proud to have seven holes-in-one at Rolling Hills, Christmas Lake, Oak Meadow, and at Ledgestone Country Club in Branson, MO. He was a member of the Presidents Club at the University of Evansville, and a member of The Ace in the Hole Club at UE where granddaughter Dana recently played for the UE Golf Team. He was a UE Basketball season ticket holder annually since 1958. Donald was also an excellent artist, bowler, tennis player, and was an avid fisherman. Donald and Irma enjoyed spending time at their weekend home in Christmas Lake Village, playing golf and boating with their family.
Donald is survived by his wife of 61 years, Irma (Hedinger) Hardesty; daughter, Dona Hardesty (Daniel) Hayden; granddaughter, Dana Leanne; and sister-in-law, Grace Hedinger. Also surviving are sister, Barbara Perkins; brother, Marvin Hardesty, Jr.; sister-in-law, Helen Hardesty; brother-in-law, Tony Neumann; and many nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews, and great-great nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents, Donald was preceded in death by mother and father-in-law, Irene and Albert Hedinger; brother, Robert "Dusty" Hardesty; sisters and brothers-in-law, Bill Perkins, Jean Hardesty, Winona and Carman Thomas, Mae and Bill Risley, and Dot Neumann.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11:30 AM on Friday, September 4, 2015 at St. Benedict Cathedral, 1328 Lincoln Avenue, Evansville, IN 47714. Burial will follow at St. Anthony Church Cemetery in the village of St. Anthony, Indiana, where members of Irma's family have been buried since the 1800's. Father Michael Madden will conduct the graveside committal service.
Friends may visit from 2:00 PM until 8:00 PM on Thursday, September 3, 2015 at Browning Funeral Home, 738 Diamond Avenue, Evansville, IN 47711 where the Retired Veteran Memorial Club will conduct military rites at 2:30 PM. Friends may also visit from 10:30 AM until Mass time at St. Benedict Cathedral on Friday.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Leukemia And Lymphoma Society , 1311 Mamaroneck Avenue, Suite 310, White Plains, NY 10605; National Kidney Foundation , 920 Stone Green Way, Suite 100, Louisville, KY 40220; St. Benedict Cathedral; and St. Anthony of Padua Church, 4444 South Ohio Street, St. Anthony, IN 47575.
Condolences may be made online at www.browningfuneral.com.
- Donald Lee Hardesty
