Olan Eugene “Pie” Hardin

Published 4:39 pm Friday, February 15, 2019

Olan Eugene “Pie” Hardin, 74, of Elizabethton, went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, February 14, 2019, at Sycamore Shoals Hospital after a battle with Amyloidosis. He was born April 27, 1944 in Elizabethton to the late Auda and Viola Peters Hardin.
Pie was a 1962 graduate of Unaka High School. He was employed at North American Rayon Corporation for several years and retired from Texas Instruments. He was a member of the Good Neighbor Quartet, The Thursday Night Boys and second generation Hardin Brothers Quartet. He was an avid Tennessee Vols Fan.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Alma “Bo” Williams, and two brothers, Charles and Dana Ray Hardin.
Survivors include his wife of 53 years, who cared for him, Karen Taylor Hardin; one daughter and son-in-law, Audra Brooke and Daryl Shanks; two sons and daughters-in-law, Wade and Sarah Hardin and Shane and Laura Hardin; the light of his life, his grandchildren, Taylor Shanks, Kassidy Hall and Cooper Shanks; two sisters, Georgia Ellis and Vera Smith and husband Mack; two brothers and sisters-in-law, David “Doug” and Danette Hardin and Donald “Don” and Carol Hardin; and several nieces and nephews.
Graveside services for Olan Eugene “Pie” Hardin will be conducted at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, February 17, in the Blevins Cemetery with the Rev. Roger Hayley officiating. Active pallbearers will be nephews. Honorary pallbearers will be Floyd “Tod” Lowe, Kenneth “Sneed” Shankles, Dean Grindstaff, Leonard Lewis, Clinton “Cooter” Williams, Tommy Verran and Doug Buckles. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in memory of “Pie” to the Blevins Cemetery Fund, P.O. Box 406, Elizabethton, TN 37644. The family would like to express a special “Thank You” to the members of Union Hill Free Will Baptist Church, New Liberty Free Will Baptist Church and Davy Ensor, caregiver, for all their prayers and support shown to them during his illness. The family will receive friends from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Condolences may be sent to the family at our website at www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is serving the Hardin family.