Shirley Sue Barker Hardin, 73, died Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, at Helen Keller Hospital, Sheffield, Alabama. She was born in Hackleburg, Alabama and worked at Blue Bell as a seamstress and at Belmont Homes. She was a member of Burnout Missionary Baptist Church.
Services will be Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 3 p.m. at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel, Red Bay, Alabama, with Brother Arthur Hardin officiating. Burial will be in Burnout Cemetery, Vina, Alabama. Deaton Funeral Home, Red Bay, Alabama, will be in charge of arrangements.
Survivors are her husband of 58 years, Andy Hardin, Vina, Alabama; three children, Anthony Hardin (Lynn) and Sherry Harris (Steve), all of Belmont, Mississippi, and Mark Hardin (Beatrice), Vina, Alabama; nine grandchildren, Jeremy Hardin (LeAnn), Jennifer Davenport (Darrel), Chondra Russell (Lee), Monica McDonald (Eric), Blake Hardin, Brady Hardin, P.J. Cleveland (Nikki), Gentry Cleveland (Stephanie), and Natasha Harris; 13 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Wilma Humphres, Red Bay, Alabama.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Elbert Troy Barker and Lizzie Idell Rollins Barker; an infant brother; and two brothers, James Barker and Robert Barker.
Pallbearers will be grandsons Jeremy Hardin, Blake Hardin, Brady Hardin, P.J. Cleveland, Eric McDonald, Gentry Cleveland, and Lee Russell.
Visitation will be today, 6-9 p.m., at Deaton Funeral Home, Red Bay, Alabama.
