Saturday, March 21, 2009
Alice L. Hardin, 90, a permit processor for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission from 1969 until she retired in
1984, died March 13 of congestive heart failure at the Asbury Methodist Village retirement community in Gaithersburg.
Alice Bell Lewis, a native of Washington, graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1936 and from the former Wilson
Teachers College in 1941. She then worked for the Labor Department until 1951.
She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church in the District.
Her husband of 35 years, Jesse E. Hardin, died in 1987.
Survivors include two sons, David J. Hardin of Fairfax City and Dwight Hardin of Woonsocket, R.I.; five grandchildren;
and three great-grandchildren.
-- Lauren Wiseman
Alice B. Lewis Hardin
ALICE BELL LEWIS HARDIN Was born January 3, 1919 in Washington D. C., and died March 13, 2009 in
her apartment at the Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg, Maryland. She was the only child of Joseph
Kirkwood Lewis and Barbara Ross Cameron; the wife of Jesse Elbert Hardin for 35 years; and the mother of
two sons David Jesse Hardin of Fairfax Virginia and Dwight Lewis Hardin of Woonsocket Rhode Island. She
is grandmother to five: Bonnie Elizabeth Gunderson, Dorothy Lynn Lyons, Solomon Evan Hardin, Joseph
Michael Hardin, and Rachel Ann Hardin; and great grandmother to three: Esther Lindsay Gunderson, Jared
Blaine Gunderson, and Eric David Lyons. Alice was a kind, loving, and giving religious minded woman; a
member of the Calvary Baptist Church in Washington D. C. since 1941, and associated recently with the
Gaithersburg First Baptist Church. A native of Washington D. C., she graduated from Roosevelt High School
and the former Wilson Teachers College. She was most proud of her work as a full-time stay-at-home mom
and for Church auxiliaries. Alice also worked before her marriage for the Labor Department, and, later, for the
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. All are welcome to her memorial service: Saturday, April 4,
10:30 a.m. at the Guild Memorial Chapel, Asbury Methodist Village, 211 Russell Avenue, Gaithersburg MD
20877.
Published in The Washington Post on 4/1/2009