Grant Reynolds Hardy (age 72) and Janell Ruth Clayton Hardy (age 71) died from complications sustained in an automobile accident. Together in death, as in their shared lives, Janell died Saturday, 30 December 2000 and Grant on Sunday, 31 December 2000. They were married 29 August 1950 in the Logan Temple. They celebrated their Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary with their family and close friends last summer - a celebration that will long be remembered. They had eight children, 34 grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Grant was born 12 January 1928 in Salt Lake City to T. Fred and Polly Reynolds Hardy. He served in the Air Force from 1946 to 1947 and fulfilled an LDS mission to Great Britain from July 1948 through July 1950. Grant played first violin in the Utah Symphony for approximately 20 years, starting in his senior year at East High in 1944 and ending in 1968. He also played first violin in the Salt Lake Philharmonic and the Salt Lake Chamber Orchestra. He was first violinist for over twenty-five years in the Bonneville String Quartet, which played for receptions, dinners and weddings in the area.
For 38 years Grant worked for the Church Education System of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, first as a teacher/principal in Morgan, Utah, as a teacher and later principal at East High School, as an instructor at the University of
Utah Institute, as a designer of curriculum and later as manager of teacher training for the entire system.
Grant served his church in many capacities, including Gospel Doctrine Teacher and counselor in the bishopric. However, most of his church service was as a writer for priesthood and auxiliary manuals. He served 15 years on the Family Home Evening Writing Committee. Six of those years he served as chairman, which included overseeing the publishing of the last Family Home Evening Resource Manual. He recently served as a greeter and also a docent at the Museum of Church History and Art.
He loved classical music, especially Mozart, Beethoven and Verdi. He enjoyed reading, especially English mysteries such as those by Agatha Christie and Anne Perry. He also enjoyed history, art, sculpture and, of course, his roses.