Joe Hardy, the founder of 84 Lumber and Nemacolin Resort died on January 7, 2023.
Hardy would have turned 100 today, and his family announced his death this afternoon.
“It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Joseph A. Hardy, III. The Hardy family lost their patriarch and all-around great man,” the family said in a statement. “Joe proved that nothing is impossible by willing himself to his 100th birthday. His family is beyond proud of him for making this final accomplishment.”
Hardy and his family built 84 Lumber into one of the country’s largest businesses. His daughter Maggie Hardy Knox currently serves as owner and president.
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Hardy had four wives.
Who were Joe Hardy’s wives?
Dorothy Hardy
In 1947, Joe married Dorothy. After 57 years of marriage, they divorced in 1998.
Debra Maley
Joe married Debra Maley, his secretary, who was 26 at the time, and they divorced in 2007.
Kristin Georgie
In 2009, shortly after the divorce with Debra, he married Kristin Georgie, who was 22 at the time. She first met him while working at the Nemacolin Woodlands spa, where she was doing his nails. That union lasted only four months.
Rebecca Davis
In 2009, he married Rebecca Davis, 51, but the marriage only lasted a few months.
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Jodi Santella Williams
Joe married Jodi Santella Williams in 2014, the two had 8 children.
Hardy was born in Upper St. Clair in 1923. According to the 84 Lumber website and a Nemacolin news release, he earned an engineering degree from the University of Pittsburgh after serving as a lieutenant and Air Forces radioman during WWII.
At the age of 31, he founded Green Hills Lumber in Bridgeville before partnering with his two younger brothers to open a cash-and-carry lumberyard in the rural town of Eighty Four in 1956. The new 84 Lumberyard served professional homebuilders throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. The billionaire built 84 Lumber into one of America‘s largest privately held companies.
