Bart Spencer Hardison, age 53 of Soddy Daisy formerly of Cookeville and Winchester, passed away on Saturday, May 7, 2022, at Seaside Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga. He was born in Memphis, TN on February 18, 1969, to Dr. James “Jim” and Judy Hardison. Bart was a 1987 graduate of Franklin County High School. He received his undergraduate at the University of Knoxville in 1993 and his master’s degree in Biology from Tennessee Tech in 1996. Bart started his career at TCS Technologies in Cookeville, then at Mad Gravity and currently he was a manager at OrthoFi in Chattanooga. Bart was an Elder at the Clear Creek Church of Christ of Hixson. He enjoyed wood carving, riding his bike and was a certified scuba diver. Bart was a member of the U.S. Park Service Civil War Cannoneer at Chickamauga. He taught himself to play the banjo and the dulcimer. After church he enjoyed watching a good round of golf. Bart will be remembered as a loyal, gentle, and compassionate man, who would pray for others before himself. He is preceded in death by his grandparents, Wallace Everett Hardison and Floy Eslick Hardison, Frank and Rosetta Glasner Bishop; father-in-law, H. Harold Wilson. Bart is survived by his loving wife of 29 years, Virginia “Ginny” Hardison of Soddy Daisy; children, Marianna Elizabeth Hardison and Elena Marie Hardison both of Soddy Daisy; beloved fur baby, Max; parents, Jim and Judy Hardison of Winchester, brother, Gregory Blake Hardison of Paso Robles, CA; mother-in-law, Carol Wilson; and several nieces, nephews and other relatives. Visitation will be held on Saturday, May 14, 2022, from 10am until 2pm at Moore-Cortner Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held immediately following at 2pm in the chapel of Moore-Cortner Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Maxwell Cemetery.
Moore-Cortner Funeral Home 300 1st Ave NW, Winchester, TN 37398, (931)967-2222
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