Obituary for Lorena Faye (Apple) Hardaway Lorena Faye (Apple) Hardaway passed away June 22, 2018 at Pasco, Franklin Co., WA. Faye was born July 29, 1922 at Donnelly, Valley Co., Idaho to Herbert Kent and Mary Emaline (Van Hoesen) Apple. During her first year of life, she lost her three-year-old brother, Orville Kent Apple, buried at Donnelly, ID.
She loved snow ski walking with her father. She became deathly ill at one point, causing her parents to decide to move back to Kansas when she was five, and she always missed the snow fun in Idaho. Although she had Alzheimer’s disease in her last years, Faye remembered Idaho best.
When she was 7, she was excited to have a new baby sister, Iva Jane Apple, who later married Raymond Schaffer, but Janie’s life was shortened by polio, leaving a 9-month old baby, Michael Ray Schaffer. Faye grew up in Meade, Meade Co., Kansas, graduating from Meade High School and went to Wichita, Kansas for Cosmetology School. Although she knew of the large Hardaway family, she met Loren Walker Hardaway from Fowler, Kansas on a blind date and they married February 14, 1942 in Dodge City, Ford Co., KS.
Loren preceded her in death on June 25, 1991. Loren went to the Army and was stationed in several places in the United States so Faye followed him, the last time to Florida before he left for Australia and New Guinea in World War II in the Army Air Force Signal Corps. When Faye returned to Meade from Florida, she brought home a baby alligator that ran around her Beauty Shop in Fowler, KS.
The ladies had to watch their feet against his nips. She had him for about three years before he succumbed to a heat lamp. Loren returned home from the Army and in 1945 daughter Louetta Lynn was born and they moved to a farm close to Montezuma, KS.
The next year they moved to the farm close to Copeland, KS. On September 9, 1946 daughter Loretta Lea was born and died two months later on November 9, 1946 from pneumonia. Farming was in Loren’s blood.
The ground he farmed was all rented. Life was hard there, raising dry land crops and cattle. In 1950, son Loren Kent was born.
The family spent many good times with relatives in Meade and Fowler and they came to the farm. The household was never empty. Loren and Faye raised many nephews and nieces through the years.
They learned the hardships of farming. One niece, Joyce (McBee) Nichols and two nephews, Ronald Dean Hardaway and Michael Ray Schaffer were there the most and each became a beloved “other child”. There were many family gatherings on the farm, including Family Reunions.
They helped with 4-H and church and school activities. Faye helped with Brownie Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, and they both enjoyed the new friends in Copeland. Louetta and Kent both graduated from school there.
In 1963 they were named Farm Family of the Year. Things were changing for them with irrigation. They even built an addition onto the house, which was desperately needed.
Faye was very active in Church with MYF for kids. Loren sang in church and he was a member of the VFW and American Legion. He was also a member/president of the Copeland School Board.
In 1974 Louetta and Ronnie Shiplet with two sons moved to Copeland where Ronnie farmed with Loren until they moved back to Washington State in 1983, spending summers in Alaska working. Son Kent and wife Kathy (Wenta) and three sons lived mostly in Oklahoma where he was a teacher and girls’ basketball coach, leading them on to win an Oklahoma State Championship. During their 60s Loren and Faye traveled to Hawaii with Copeland friends and Alaska (where Louetta and husband Ronnie Shiplet worked Asphalt/Road Construction).
In July of 1987 they flew to Alaska and Loren fished for halibut and ling cod out of Seward, Alaska. They traveled up from Anchorage to Fairbanks, viewing the majestic Mt. McKinley (Denali, to Alaskans) with Louetta and grandsons and young friend in their motorhome.
They returned to Washington with Louetta and 3 boys (who had to go back to school), a large wood-carved eagle statue, a huge Garfield, and a hanging plant from Alaska in Louetta and Ronnie’s 23-foot motorhome on the 2500-mile trip on the Al-can Highway – a trip they talked about with lots of fun and laughter. Loren fought cancer for many years and lost the battle in 1991. Faye remained on the farm until 1998.
Kent and Kathy and their three sons had previously moved to Locust Grove, OK, where Kent lost his wife, Kathy (Wenta) Hardaway to cancer. While Faye stayed with Kent for a month following Kathy’s death, Louetta and Ronnie and relatives and farm neighbors and friends moved Faye’s belongings to Meade, KS to the house she grew up in and where she stayed until 2011. During those years she was an avid political advocate for right, moral, patriotic, and decency in her congressmen, expecting them to be the best.
They knew who she was. She wrote many letters to the editor voicing her knowledge of what was happening to our country. She attended many years at the Copeland, KS Methodist Church but was a member of the Meade Baptist Church, the American Legion Auxiliary, and was past-president of the Dodge City Genealogical Society.
She was thrilled to know and visit many Apple Chapels that were erected from North Carolina to Indiana to Kansas by her Apple ancestors. Four of them went to the Civil War for the Union Army and only one survived and that was her grandfather, Moses Wester Apple. She enjoyed the luncheons with friends, the family in Meade, and traveling to Oklahoma, Alaska, and Washington to stay with either Kent or Louetta from time to time.
Faye’s life was about God, Country, and Family, without a doubt. In 2011 at age 89, she fell and broke her hip, leaving behind Meade, KS for good. She lived with Louetta in Washington for 4 years.
She was excited when all her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren were in Benton City, Washington to celebrate her 90th birthday. Later she moved into Assisted Living in Kennewick, WA. In 2017 she was blessed with another daughter-in-law, Stacy (Treat/Avery) Hardaway and her 2 children.
In 2018 at the age of 95 she moved to a Skilled Nursing Facility in Pasco, WA due to the Alzheimer’s. She is preceded in death by her loving husband, Loren Hardaway; her baby daughter, Loretta Hardaway; her parents, Herb and Mary (Van Hoesen) Apple; her siblings, Orville Kent Apple; Iva Jane (Apple) Schaffer and her husband, Raymond; her first daughter-in-law, Katherine Marie (Kathy) (Wenta) Hardaway; her mother-in-law and father-in-law, Fannie (Marrs) and Walker Jesse (Pete) Hardaway; and many sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law: She has gone to be with her Heavenly Father, joining many relatives and friends there. She leaves behind her daughter and son-in-law, Louetta and Ronnie Shiplet, her grandson, Russell Shiplet; her grandson and his family, Shane (Brenda) Shiplet and three children, Sierra, Ryan and Jonah.
She leaves behind her son and daughter-in-law Kent and Stacy (Treat/Avery) Hardaway, with two children, Wyatt Avery and Blakely Avery; her grandson, Jason Hardaway; her grandson and his family, Barry (Trista) Hardaway and three children, Boone, Conagher, and Blaine; her grandson and his family, Ryan (Tifani) Hardaway and two children, Hunter Rouse and Braylen Hardaway; and the two special nephews, Ronald Dean Hardaway and Michael Ray Schaffer. There are many, many nephews and nieces and cousins and friends that she loved dearly. A grave-side service will be held at the Fowler Cemetery, Fowler, Meade Co., Kansas mid-July, 2018.
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