Mrs. Evelyn Hendon Hardin

October 18, 1920 - September 22, 2017

Mrs. Evelyn Hendon Hardin age 96 of Rockmart passed away Friday, September 22, 2017. Mrs. Hardin was born October 18, 1920 in Cleburne County, Alabama, daughter of the late Barney Hendon and the late Ruby Gladys Freeman Hendon. She was a graduate of the Rockmart High School Class of 1940 and was a member of the Piedmont Ave. Baptist Church. Mrs. Hardin retired from both the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and Dallas Paulding Wellstar Hospital as a CNA. She loved to plant flowers, read and sing gospel music. She was preceded in death by her husband, Elbert Hardin; two sons, Elbert David Hardin and Jerry Wayne Hardin; daughter, Margaret Hardin Cornwell; sister, Ruby Clyde Wright; three brothers, Henry Freeman Hendon, Jack Huckabee Hendon and Austin Hendon and a grandson, William Scott Cornwell. Survivors include two sisters, Mary Helen Crane of Covington and Jessie Ellen Casey of Cartersville; five grandchildren, Elbert David Hardin, Jr. and his wife Robin, William Austin Hardin, Angela Lane Harris and her husband Chuck, Kevin Dwayne Cornwell and his wife Donna and Lori Michelle Cornwell Harris; ten great-grandchildren, numerous great-great-grandchildren and two special nieces, Patricia Dabbs and Jane Hardin Smith. Funeral services for Mrs. Hardin will be held on Monday, September 25, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of the Freeman Harris Funeral Home with Rev. Larry Davis officiating. Interment services will follow in the family lot of the Bethlehem Cemetery. The following gentlemen will serve as pallbearers: Charles Dabbs, Chad Dabbs, Joey Williams, Will Lundy, Jim Nelson, Henry Smith, Jerry Lambert and Jim Hardin. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Monday prior to the service from 12 noon until 1:30 p.m. Freeman Harris Funeral Home is in charge of the funeral services for Mrs. Evelyn Hendon Hardin.