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About the Roe Coy Hardy Family:
From the Shreveport, LA City Directories, Ancestry.com:
1941 - Roe C. and Ruth Hardy were living
at 1451 Harvard St. with Ruth's mother Kathleen Ferguson. Roe's occupation: mechanic, Shreveport Blowpipe. 1945
- R. C. and Ruth Hardy and one child were living at 2402 Darien St. No employer listed. 1946 - Roe
C. and Ruth Hardy were living at 2622-1/2 Emery St. This was a garage apartment. 1948 - Roe C.
and Ruth E. Hardy were living at 2622-1/2 Emery St., occupation: sheet metal worker. 1950 - Roe
C. and Ruth E. Hardy, occupation: cabinet mkr, Foster Mfg. 1952 - Roe C. and Mrs. (Ruth) Hardy were
living at 2737 Darien St., occupation: welder, Bynum Equipment. 1953 - Roe C. and Mrs. (Ruth) Hardy
were living at 2737 Darien St., occupation: welder. 1955 - Roe C. and Mrs. (Ruth) Hardy were living
at 2737 Darien St., occupation: welder, L.B. Stuart Co. 1956 - Mrs. Ruth Hardy was living at 3536
Clarke Blvd., working as a cashier at TG&Y Stores. Roe was not listed. 1957 - Roe C. and Ruth F.
Hardy were living at 3536 Clarke Blvd., occupation: welder. 1958 - Roe C. and Ruth F. Hardy were
living at 3536 Clarke Blvd., occupation: welder. 1959 - Roe C. and Ruth F. Hardy were living at
3536 Clarke Blvd., occupation: welder.
About Roe Coy Hardy:
Roe (or R. C. as he was called by his family) was raised and went to school in Hempstead and later Ouachita
County, Arkansas, where his father Henry farmed and worked in the nearby oil fields. In the 1930 Census,
the family was living in Ouachita County, where R. C. attended Louann High School, playing on the football
team. In 1931, the family moved to Gregg County, Texas, near Longview, and settled in the Springhill
community. His father worked in the oil drilling industry, which was booming in Gregg Co. at that time.
R. C. worked at any job he could find in those early Depression years, including at a government Civilian
Conservation Corps (CCC) camp near Woodville, Texas.
In the late thirties he joined the Army,
and was trained as an aerial gunner on a two-seat attack aircraft, the A-17. He was stationed at Barksdale
Army Air Base, near Shreveport, Louisiana. There he met Ruth Ferguson, his future wife. He left the
Army in 1939, and settled in Shreveport, where he and Ruth married the following year. He worked at
various jobs before becoming a sheet metal worker, a trade he pursued for many years. During World
War II, he worked at defense plants in Louisiana, Port Arthur, Texas, and briefly in Washington state.
After
the war he continued to work as a sheet metal worker in Shreveport, and in the fifties he became a welder.
He joined the Boilermakers Union, Local 79 and worked in the construction of power plants and oil and
chemical refineries in Louisiana as a union member until he retired. .......................................................................................
In
the 1940 Shreveport City Directory, R.C. Hardy was single, living at 2423 (2425) Lakeshore Dr. Listing
stated that R.C. worked as a Driver. .......................................................................................
In
the U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1, 1986: Name: Roe C Hardy Address: 3536 Clarke
Blvd, Shreveport, LA, 71109-7110 (1986) .......................................................................................
Picture of R. C. Hardy
About Ruth Evelyn Ferguson:
Ruth came to Shreveport, Louisiana at a very early age, and lived there her entire life. .......................................................
In
the 1940 Shreveport City Directory, Ruth Ferguson was single, living at 1451 Harverd St. Listing stated
that Ruth worked as a Packer at Magnolia Packing. .......................................................
Obituary
of Ruth Ferguson Hardy Shreveport Times
"Mrs. Ruth Hardy SHREVEPORT - Services for Mrs.
Ruth Hardy, 65, of Shreveport, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday July 13 at Rose-Neath's Southside Chapel.
The Rev. Fisk Ray, associate pastor of Willow Point Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial: Greenwood
Cemetery. Mrs. Hardy died at 1:35 a.m. Wednesday July 11, 1984, at Willis-Knighton Medical Center
after a sudden illness. She was born in Washington, Indiana and was a lifelong resident of Shreveport.
Mrs. Hardy was a retired shop foreman for Tackle Industries and was a member of the Willow Point Baptist
Church and Shreveport Golden Age Club. She is survived by her husband, Roe C. Hardy of Shreveport;
two sons, Gary R. Hardy of Garland, Texas, Danny R. Hardy of Shreveport; one sister, Leneda Eley of
Shreveport; two brothers, Homer Ferguson of Louisiana, Leonard W. Ferguson, Jr. of Shreveport; three
grandchildren." ......................................................
Picture of Ruth Ferguson
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