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Sue Smith Hardin

After graduation I attended Western in Bowling Green, KY and roomed first with fellow classmate Jan Morrison and then June Preston. In June 1963 fellow classmate Billy Hardin and I became engaged and I moved back home and attended UL full time while working part time as a checker in the GES grocery store from 1963-65. In March 1964 Billy and I married. Summer 1965 Billy had a job transfer to Lexington, and my college senior year was spent at UK enrolled full time and working part time as a grocery checker in the old A&P grocery chain. Summer 1966 brought us back to Louisville where I started my teaching career at Overdale Elementary School in Bullitt County teaching 2nd grade, while renting a house in a nearby subdivision. Summer of 1968 brought us the birth of a baby boy William Mark Hardin lll-called Mark. What joy that was. Not much on subdivision living, we jumped at the chance to move out in the country next to Billy's grandmother Lanham after his grandfather died in July 1968. We bought a new small mobile home(called trailers at the time), had a well dug, septic system built, bought a new Sears Garden & Lawn tractor and settled into country living. I was fortunate enough to get a 3rd grade teaching job a few miles down the road at Cedar Grove Elementary. We continued to save our money to purchase some land to have a house built. Christmas 1970 another joy arrived with the birth of our daughter Jill Marie. 1972 we purchased 5 acres of woods down the road, and moved into our newly built home the summer of 1973. By this time I can't say I was the least bit sorry moving from a 2 bedroom trailer with 2 little kiddos to a regular house with 3 bedrooms and a basement. Billy's spare time was spent clearing out some of the woods so we could have a decent yard and room for a garden and dogs. I spent several summers canning, which I enjoyed.

We enjoyed one summer vacation with our youngsters in my Mom & Dad's camper truck touring the West seeing much of Colorado, Wyoming, & my favorite Yellowstone National Park. Other summer vacations we spent at Lido Beach in Sarasota, Florida & historic places in Virginia and Kentucky. For many years while the kids were still young and enjoyed being with their parents, we would go to the spring & fall NMLRA shoots in Friendship, Indiana, where there was much to do with tent camping, browsing the flea market, walking through the primitive area to see all the tipis set up, and the best of all, so many people dressed up in Revolutionary War Period dress.

Our son is married, graduated from UL, works at UPS and lives in Louisville. Our daughter is divorced, graduated from UL, works as a cytotech at Nortons Hospital in Louisville, and lives in Shepherdsville. We have one grandson-John Kenneth 18,a freshman at JCC, and one granddaughter-Chasity Carol, 22, who is busy planning her wedding this Nov. Very grateful that all the family live close by.

I continued teaching 2nd, 3rd, 4th grades at Cedar Grove. Due to a new Ky. law at the time requiring teachers to further their education, I spent several years enrolled in UL's Master program taking night classes and summer school and in 1976 got my Masters Degree in Early & Middle Childhood Education with Kindergarten certification. When kindergarten funding became a law, I went from 3rd grade to Kindergarten for about 8 years. From Kindergarten I switched back to 4th grade and in January, 2000 left the perfect 4th grade class behind & retired after 32-1/2 years.


Retirement hasn't been dull at all. I settled into going to bed whenever I wanted, getting up without an alarm clock, spending lots of time with the grandkids, teaching myself to make baskets, sewing all I wanted to, flower gardening, and learning how to use the computer. I started selling on eBay in 2003 and have continued with my online store of teas and spices, which keeps me pretty busy.

I am really enjoying reconnecting with classmates at the monthly lunches we have, and so much enjoyed our 50th reunion weekend in August, 2012. Will continue the monthly classmate lunches after the reunion. Very enjoyable and so much fun getting to know my classmates again. Oh my, where has the time gone???

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