[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 200 (Wednesday, November 17, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1248]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        IN MEMORY OF NORM HARDEE

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                             HON. TOM COLE

                              of oklahoma

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, November 17, 2021

  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, in the early morning hours of Sunday, 
November 14, Norm Hardee entered eternal life and joined the communion 
of saints after a more than 30-year battle with Parkinson's disease. He 
was surrounded by those who loved him, including his soul mate, Jana.
  Norm was born on March 14, 1948 to Donnie and Mary Hardee in Mullins, 
South Carolina. He was raised a poor sharecropper's son in the tobacco 
fields of North Carolina. Norm enlisted in the U.S. Navy January 6, 
1969, which enabled him to find and marry the love of his life, Jana 
Nall, in 1973. Norm went on to become a commissioned officer in the 
Navy, serving for 20 years until his retirement in 1989. When he gave 
his final salute, he didn't hesitate to head west to his adopted home 
of Oklahoma.
  Following his Naval career, he went on to become the electronics 
instructor at the Pontotoc County Career Tech Center in Ada, Oklahoma. 
Norm made a positive and lasting impact on the lives of many who served 
with him in the Navy as well as his students in the classroom. He was a 
proud father to two children, Jill and Ben, a doting Papa to five 
grandchildren, and one great granddaughter.
  He is survived by his loving wife of 48 years, Jana; daughter, Jill 
Daugherty and husband Michael; son, Ben Hardee and wife Kassidy; 
brother, Don Hardee and wife Beth; grandchildren, Sydney Daugherty, 
Caleb Jones, Nathan Jones, Owen Hardee and Brendon Hardee; great 
granddaughter, Delilah Jones; nephews, Justin Hardee and Adam Hancock; 
nieces, Ashley Jasmin and husband Jamie and Amy Hornback and husband 
Joe; cousin, Susan Busby; his mother-in-law, Drusilla Nall; sister-in-
law, Labeth Nall; and special friends, Norma Robins; Donna Blankenship, 
and Mary Beth Norman. He was preceded in death by his parents, 
brothers, Harold and Ronald Hardee and his nephew Aaron Hancock.

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