Mrs. Clyeda Hardin, age 93, went to be with our Lord and Savior on Sunday, May 31, 2015. She was a faithful servant of the Lord, a loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and sincere friend to all she met. Born in Washington County, Clyeda was the daughter of the late Lem and Julia Burns. The family eventually moved to Spencer County to the Little Union Community. At Little Union Baptist Church, Clyeda accepted Christ at an early age. After marriage and buying a farm in the Elk Creek community, she and her late husband moved their church memberships from Little Union Baptist Church to the Elk Creek Baptist Church where she served faithfully for over 65 years, having served as a Sunday school and Bible school teacher, and a nursery worker. Clyeda raised five children in the church. She was a music lover and encouraged her children to study piano which led her daughters to become pianist and organist at the church. Clyeda was a farmer, professional caregiver, talented homemaker, skillful gardener of flowers and vegetables, and custodian of Elk Creek Baptist Church for 40 years.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, James W. Hardin, 11 month old daughter, Julia Ann Hardin, son, Willis Ray Hardin, daughter, Nancy Hardin McCarty, grandson, Simeon Nicholas McCarty, son in law, Sim McCarty, brothers, Curtis and James Burns, sisters, Martha Joyce Burns and Beulah Monroe.

Left behind to cherish her memory are 3 daughters and their husbands, Vickie and Larry Rogers, Patty and Randy McClain, Melissa and Arnold Brown and daughter in law, Carolyn Hardin, all of Spencer County, 7 grandchildren, James McCarty, Susan Hardin-Stevens (Scott), Clint Rogers (Kim), Weston McClain (Denise), Jennifer Brown, Whitney Boles (Hank), Scott Phillips, all of Spencer County, 7 great grandchildren, Zachary Hardin, Aaron Stevens, Baileigh Bogard, Charles Rogers, Emma Kate McClain, Anthony Albert, and Cooper Albert, sister, Mary Lois Jacobson and her husband Gayle of Los Angeles, California, sisters in law, Thelma Burns, Alberta Hedden, Evelyn Bowman, Yvonne Hardin, and brother in law, Donald R. Hardin, all of Nelson County, and several nieces and nephews, and a special long time friend to Clyeda and her family, Elmer "Bud" Smith and his wife Doris Smith of Montgomery, Alabama.

Funeral services for Mrs. Clyeda Hardin will be Wednesday, June 3, 2015, 11 a.m. at the Elk Creek Baptist Church, Sister Mavis Bennett and Bro. Kenneth Jackson officiating. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery at Bloomfield. Visitation was Tuesday at the Greenwell-Houghlin Funeral Home in Taylorsville. Additional visitation will be Wednesday beginning at 9 a.m. at the church. The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contribution to the Elk Creek Baptist Church Memorial Fund. The Greenwell-Houghlin Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

(Published in The Spencer Magnet on June 3, 2015)