Ollie Brown Hardiman

OLLIE BROWN HARDIMAN OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, WAS BORN AUGUST 19, 1909, IN PULASKI, TENNESSEE, A SON OF THE LATE ANDREW JOHNSON AND DAISEY BEULAH (TURNER) HARDIMAN. OLLIE DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT WASHINGTON COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ON JUNE 13, 2000, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF NINETY YEARS, NINE MONTHS AND TWENTY-FIVE DAYS.
OLLIE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO THE LATE MYRTLE MAY (SMITH) HARDIMAN ON MAY 12, 1934, IN ATHENS, ALABAMA, AND TO THIS UNION THREE CHILDREN WERE BORN.
OLLIE IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON, OLLIE BROWN "BUTCH" HARDIMAN, JR. AND WIFE ALICE OF DEWEY, OKLAHOMA, TWO DAUGHTERS, GLORIA FOWLER AND HUSBAND SIDNEY OF NICHOLASVILLE, KENTUCKY, PEGGY JOYCE SMITH AND HUSBAND ALLAN, SR. OF ARNOLD, SEVERAL GRANDCHILDREN, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, ONE SISTER, GEORGIA LOU HANEY OF PULASKI, TENNESSEE, ONE SISTER-IN-LAW, MARIE HARDIMAN OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS AND SPOUSE HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY FOUR BROTHERS, WILLIE, BUCK, JOE AND BUTE HARDIMAN AND BY TWO SISTERS, ETHA GEISER AND SUSIE SMITH.
BROWN DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO FARMING WHERE HE RAISED AND NURTURED MANY CATTLE OVER THE YEARS. HE ENJOYED CUTTING GRASS AND SITTING ON THE PORCH WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS. BROWN ALWAYS FOUND TIME TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS OR ANY OTHER SPORTING EVENT. DURING A GOOD LAZY AFTERNOON BROWN LOVED TO TAKE SPECIAL TIME TO GO FISHING AND AFTER THE FISHING TIME THE FISH STORIES CONTINUED TO GROW FASTER THAN THE FISH COULD.
VISITATION WAS HELD THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 2000, FROM 4:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 2000, AT 11:00 A.M. AT THE MOORE CHAPEL WITH REVEREND BILL WARREN AND REVEREND JOHN EDWARDS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN NEW MASONIC CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, LEWIS SMITH, CHRISTOPHER SMITH, L.B. SMITH, BILL RIGGINS, TERRI KAE BLACK, DENNY BRAND AND MICHAEL BONE.