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In Memory of Jon
Hardin
Jonathan Lee Hardin,
23, of St. Louis, Missouri and former Pine Bluff resident, died
unexpectedly at St. Luke Hospital in Chesterfield, Missouri on
Tuesday, December 14, 2004.
He was born in Pine Bluff on June 29, 1981, a son of Susan Vontungeln
Hardin and Edward Lee
Hardin of Pine Bluff. He received
his early education in Pine Bluff and was an Eagle Scout. He was a
1999 graduate of the Arkansas School for Mathematics and Sciences in
Hot Springs. He earned his bachelor of science degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Missouri Rolla in May of 2004. He
was chosen as an outstanding electrical engineering student at UMR,
receiving a $5,000 award from the Grainger Foundation.
Moving to St. Louis he joined Ameren as an associate engineer. He was
currently a transmission coordinator for that electric utility. During
his college years he worked for Thompson Electric in Little Rock, for
Aldo Foods in O'Fallon, MO, for Bensen Electric as a student co-op
engineer/project manager in St. Louis, and for Ozark Electric
Cooperative as a student intern in Nixa, Missouri. He had passed the
certification examination and completed the initial step on his way to
becoming a Missouri State Board certified engineer.
In Pine Bluff, he was a member of Lakeside United Methodist Church. He
was a member of Sigma Pi Fraternity and the Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers. He was a certified scuba diver and enjoyed
skydiving.
Other survivors include his grandmother, Dora Ellen Vontungeln of Pine
Bluff; his step-mother, Shelia Hardin
of Pine Bluff; brother, Ryan William Hardin
of Pine Bluff; and step-sisters Cassie Drake and Morgan Drake of Pine
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If you have any stories or other memories of
Jon that you would like to share, please
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them to us so they may be posted here.
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