Stella (Nowak) Hardin - Nurse

Don Oglesby "Mac" Hardin was born to Ed Everett "Ed" Hardin (1860-1940) and Elsie E. Haggard (1884-1944). His father was born in Kentucky and his mother was born in Minnesota. He had a brother, Jack Haggard Hardin (1918-1991), and seven half-siblings, including Grace, Hope, Edith, Edward Brown, Thomas Boone, Cambria Jane, and Henry Buster Hardin. In the 1940 federal census, he was a lodger in a home in Los Angeles and said that he was working as an "apprentice tinsmith" Don married Stella Frances Nowak (1919 - 1976) on April 21st 1945 in Seattle Washington and they had three daughters, including Mary and Elizabeth. Don and Stella were married until Stella's death on September 2nd 1976. A 1977 article in the Imperial Beach Star-News provides a detailed account of Stella's accomplished life, highlighting the Stella Hardin Memorial Scholarship initiated by Don Hardin in her honor. See Scholarship in memory of Stella Hardin. Don later married Constance I Crosby (1924 - 1996) on November 4th 1978 in Ventura California. They didn't have children.