Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
3:03 pm Monday, February 22, 2016

Shirley Sue Barker Hardin

February 22, 2016

Shirley Sue Barker Hardin, 73, passed away Feb. 22 at Helen Keller Hospital, Sheffield. She was born in Hackleburg and worked at Blue Bell as a seamstress and at Belmont Homes. She was a member of Burnout Missionary Baptist Church.

Services will be Feb. 24 at 3 p.m. at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel, Red Bay, with Bro. Arthur Hardin officiating. Burial will be in Burnout Cemetery, Vina.

Survivors are her husband of 58 years, Andy Hardin, Vina; three children, Anthony Hardin and wife Lynn and Sherry Harris and husband Steve, all of Belmont, Miss., and Mark Hardin and wife Beatrice, Vina; nine grandchildren, Jeremy Hardin and wife LeAnn, Jennifer Davenport and husband Darrel, Chondra Russell and husband Lee, Monica McDonald and husband Eric, Blake Hardin, Brady Hardin, P.J. Cleveland and wife Nikki, Gentry Cleveland and wife Stephanie and Natasha Harris; 13 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Wilma Humphres, Red Bay.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Elbert Troy Barker and Lizzie Idell Rollins Barker; an infant brother; and two brothers, James Barker and Robert Barker.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons – Jeremy Hardin, Blake Hardin, Brady Hardin, P.J. Cleveland, Eric McDonald, Gentry Cleveland and Lee Russell.

Visitation will be Feb. 23, 6-9 p.m., at Deaton Funeral Home, Red Bay.

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