By Staff
January 10, 2006
Funeral for Mrs. Hoyle Hardwick, 85, of Danville will be Thursday (today), Jan. 12, at 11 a.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Thompson Pitt officiating.
Burial will be in Herring Cemetery.
Mrs. Hardwick died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006, at Decatur General Hospital.
She was born Feb. 8, 1920, in Morgan County to Thurman Sandlin and Vera Puckett Sandlin.
She lived in Danville and Hartselle all of her life and taught elementary school 34 years at Danville and Speake. She was a member of the Joe Wheeler Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy and a member of the Colonel John Robins Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Max Sandlin and Bobby Sandlin; and her husband, Burl G. Hardwick.
She is survived by a daughter, Dr. Sandra Sims-deGraffenried, executive director of the Alabama Association of School Boards in Montgomery and her husband Ryan deGraffenried Jr.; four grandchildren, Marla Sims-Robinson of Danville, Todd Hardwick Sims of Huntsville, Ryan deGraffenried III, and Frances deGraffenried, both of Tuscaloosa; three great-grandchildren, Slater Robinson, Garrett Robinson and Stella Grace DeGraffenried.
Pallbearers will be Travis W. Hardwick, Dr. Hardwick Kay, Pruitt Livingston, Howell Collins Puckett, Darryl W. Robinson and Charles Lewis Thompson.