Marie Virginia Walker Hardy, of Bainbridge Island, died on Feb. 21. She was 94.

She was born to Dr. and Mrs. Thomas DuHart Walker on Nov. 24, 1914 in Cochran, Ga.; when she was a small girl, her family moved to Macon, Ga., for her father’s pediatrics practice. When she was 15, her father relocated to Norfolk, Va. to begin a new medical practice. She and her mother moved to Winston-Salem, N.C., where she finished high school. The family reunited in 1930 in Norfolk, where she lived until 1935 when she left for Boston to pursue her higher education at Randolph Macon, later to become Radcliffe College, part of Harvard University.

In 1938 she married Franklin Albright Hardy, a student at Harvard Law School. The war interrupted everyone’s lives and the Navy took them to Kentucky, where they settled in the beautiful small town of Anchorage to raise their five children until their marriage ended in 1961.

In 1982, after working for 16 years as parish secretary for St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Anchorage, she retired to Orlando, Fla., where she lived until 1988. She then permanently relocated to Bainbridge Island and the loving community of Grace Episcopal Church.

She is survived by her sons, Frank Hardy of St. Louis, Mo., and Tim Hardy of Baltimore, Md.; her daughters, Linda Beckham of Orlando and Virginia Walker of Bainbridge Island; seven grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; and her family at Grace.

A memorial service and celebration of her life will be held at 3 p.m. Feb. 27 at Grace Episcopal Church, 8595 NE Day Rd. A memorial fund has been established there in her name. An online guest book is at www.cookfamilyfuneralhome.com.