Notes for Roe Coy Hardy

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Notes for 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. There, 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.

Revised: 18-Mar-07 12:58 PM

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