George B. Hardy ’44

George Hardy died Mar. 5, 1999, of a stroke while visiting his daughter in California. He was 76. He transferred to Princeton at the beginning of junior year from William & Mary, for which he had prepared at Norfolk's Granby H.S. After three years in the Navy where he was a supply officer in the U.S. and the Pacific, George returned to Princeton and graduated in 1947 with a BS. He returned to Norfolk, joined the family jewelry business and became a certified gemologist before being recalled to the Navy for two years which he spent in Japan. Back in Norfolk after release, he rejoined the family firm, Hardy's Diamonds, of which he became president.

A member of the Norfolk Yacht and Country Club, George was also active in business, civic and service organizations in and around Norfolk. He was a trustee of the Virginia Symphony, and a member of the boards of the Hermitage Museum and the Ballentine Home, and senior warden of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.

To his wife, Elizabeth, his daughters, Elizabeth Parks and Margaret Folta, and to his four grandchildren, the class extends its sympathy.

The Class of 1944