Submitted by: Dan Rich

Calvin L. Hardin

May 26, 1978 - March 14, 1999

South Bend Tribune 3/19/1999

Funeral services for Calvin Cutler Hardin, 20, will be conducted on Saturday, March 20, at the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 313 East Ohio, South Bend, with Pastor Stephen Reed officiating.

The ceremony is scheduled for noon, with visitation one hour before. Interment will follow at Highland Cemetery.

Calvin, a lifelong South Bend resident who attended Riley High School and graduated from Hamilton Adult Education School, died on Sunday, March 14. He had recently received certification for successful completion of the Indiana State Building Trades Construction Program and was looking forward to starting a career in the building trades industry. Calvin was a member of the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church were he joined as a youngster, and served as a member of the Youth Fellowship and the Junior Usher Board. e was a young man who enjoyed life and will be missed by those who knew and loved him.

He was preceded in death by his father, Issac Cutler in 1991; and by his maternal grandparents, Louis Gilbert and Lillie Mae Hardin. He leaves to cherish his memory his mother, Wyvonia Hardin; six sisters, Saquita Bishop, Willie Jean (Robert) Taylor, Dorothy Ann Ellis, Delores Winters, Elenor Lynn Cutler and Tonya (Lee) Booker, all of South Bend; two brothers, Curtis and Dennis, also of South Bend; a dear and very close cousin, Joseph Newbill; and special friend Patricia; along with a host of other family members and friends.