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Maxine Elizabeth Ellis Hardin
Maxine Elizabeth Ellis Hardin, 89, died Thursday, September 16, 2010, in Amarillo.
Services were held at 4 p.m. Sunday, September 19, 2010, in St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Clarendon with Rev. Jim Aveni, Vicar, officiating. Interment followed at Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon.
Services were under the arrangement of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon. Mrs. Hardin was born April 22, 1921, to Thomas Henry and Elizabeth Dyer Ellis. Mrs. Hardin was a lifelong resident of Clarendon, and had lived in the same house since the age of six months old. She also was graduate from Texas Tech with a degree in commercial art. She married W.K. Hardin on June 10, 1947, in Clarendon. Maxine, known to her children and grandchildren as “Mimi”, loved spending time with her family. Her cooking was legendary and her favorite things to cook were fresh vegetables from W.K.’s garden and a number of special desserts. Her legacy will live on as we enjoy preparing the many recipes she left her family. She was a member of the Les Beaux Arts Club, Bridge Club, Extension Homemakers, Ladies Golf Association, Red Hat Society, and the St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church. The family would like to express thanks to everyone at Odyssey Hospice for the loving care they provided her the past couple of weeks.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and by W.K., her husband of 60 years on December 31, 2007, who celebrated his 100th birthday three years ago on September 17.
Survivors include three daughters, Cheryl Hardin of San Antonio, Shauna Kidd and husband Clay of Austin, and Kelli Mooring and husband Don of Canyon; two sons, David Hardin of Clarendon and Brent Hardin of El Paso; seven grandchildren, Shawn Hardin and wife Amy, Andrea Douglas and husband Rory, Renea Hardin, Shannon Kidd and husband Jon McCollom, Christopher Kidd and wife Leslie, Caitlin Kidd, and Mason Mooring; and three great grandchildren, Jacob, Gracie, and Sarah Douglas and one on the way.
The family will be at 902 West 3rd in Clarendon.
The family requests that memorials be to St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church or Odyssey Hospice.
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An official accident report from the Department of Public Safety was not available at press time, but emergency workers on the scene said it appeared Kuhn turned in front of a loaded semi-truck.
Kuhn’s GMC Jimmy came to rest in the southbound ditch. The semi-truck came to rest on its side in the center median.
Kuhn was extracted from the wreckage of his vehicle by the Clarendon Volunteer Fire Department and the Associated Ambulance Authority.
Kuhn told the Enterprise Tuesday morning that he spent three days in an Amarillo hospital but suffered no major injuries. “The good Lord was looking out for me,” he said.
CEDC awards $4,000 in storefront grants
The most recent awards from the CEDC were for improvements to the First Baptist Church’s Downtown Ministry Center and to remodeling done by one of Clarendon’s newest business, Fantastic Nails. Both properties qualified for and received the maximum grant of $2,000.
Representatives of the Downtown Ministry Center have known about the CEDC’s program since its inception in 2008 and even attended the initial public hearing that helped shaped the program.
“This has been a three-year project,” church volunteer Terry Ashcraft said. “We certainly appreciate this grant, and the money will go right back into this building.”
The church installed a new sidewalk in front of the center, removed a dilapidated awning, and gave the building an updated paint job and a new sign. An attractive metal awning was then added to the structure, which in addition to improving appearances has helped keep the building cool.
Ashcraft said the church now plans to do some interior remodeling, repaint the north side of the building, which is visible from US 287, and possibly add an entrance for their community clothes closet on the north side.
Fantastic Nails & Spa, owned by sisters Trisha Tran and Valerie Tran, opened for business last month and is now attracting local clients as well as folks from Memphis, Hedley, Wheeler, and other nearby communities.
Trisha Tran said she did not know about the CEDC program when she first considered purchasing the former Studio E location at 103 S. Kearney earlier this year.
“I was excited to find out about it,” she said. “It helps out a lot. The money will help cover the new sign.”
In addition to new signage and a new EIFS stucco façade, Tran and her sister knocked down partitions inside the building and installed new heating and cooling, new ceramic tile floors, eight spa pedicure chairs, and five tables for manicures. A new room was also created for cosmetologist Judy Thornberry, who continues to do hair in the building.
Tran says she has plans for more improvements in the coming months, including a new awning in the next month or so and new windows and an improved sidewalk next spring.
The CEDC has budgeted $10,000 for this fiscal year’s Façade Grant Program, which provides fifty-fifty matching grants up to a maximum of $2,000 per project for properties on a three-block stretch of Kearney Street.
Projects eligible for consideration could be anything from a coat of paint to new signage to a complete rehabilitation of a storefront. Those interested in the grants are asked to apply prior to beginning a project, and applications are available from CEDC Secretary Roger Estlack at The Clarendon Enterprise.
Since the Façade Grant Program began in 2008, the CEDC has awarded $10,414.15.
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