Nancy "Geneva" Geneva Hardwick Obituary (1927

Nancy Geneva Hardwick, 82, a resident of the North Plains community left us for her reward in Heaven on Friday, December 11, 2009 at the Tuality Community Hospital in Hillsboro Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at the Forest Grove Church of Christ; 1803 Birch Street in Forest Grove. Committal services will follow the funeral services to be held at the Shady Brook Cemetery in North Plains. Family and friends are invited to attend a reception following the Committal services to be held at the Jessie Mays center in North Plains. Geneva was born August 5, 1927 in Pinellas Park, Florida to Ruben VanBuren Blackwelder and Eva Mae Rogers Blackwelder. She was one of six children that grew up in a log cabin on her grandfather's homestead near Lake Butler, Florida. As a teenager she moved to Apopka, Florida where she played varsity basketball in high school. She married Lawrence Kenneth Hardwick in Apopka on November 1, 1944 while he was in the US Army. After WW2 he became an electrician and they moved around the country following work at nuclear power plants, and the Cape Canaveral space station. They moved to Sunnyside, Washington in 1961, and then settled in North Plains, Oregon in 1969. Geneva was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She was a homemaker and enjoyed sewing, gardening, traveling and being with her family. She was a devout Christian and a lifelong member of The Church of Christ. She left us for her reward in Heaven on Friday, December 11, 2009. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a brother Flavil Blackwelder, a brother and his wife R.B. and Helen Blackwelder, and by her sisters and their husbands Audrey and D.J. Anderson, and Juanita and Howard Meadows. She is survived by a sister and her husband Barbara and Larry Callahan, her sister-in-law Kate Blackwelder, her daughters Sandra Harris, Therena Mellor and her husband Stan, sons Ken Hardwick, Sid Hardwick and his wife Pam, Jamie Hardwick and his wife Susie, Kevin Hardwick and his wife Sheila, 14 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. The family suggests donations in Geneva's name to the Forest Grove Church of Christ