Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Friday, December 25, 1998

Dorothy Hardy Oswalt
retired insurance executive

CLINTON -- Dorothy Hardy Oswalt, 75, a retired insurance executive with Hardy Insurance Co., died of heart failure Wednesday at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson.

Services are 3 p.m. Saturday at Breeland Funeral Home with burial in Canton. Visitation is 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Oswalt was a Flora native, living in Jackson for 30 years before moving to Clinton 15 years ago. She was named Insurance Woman of the Year in 1975. She was a member of St. John's United Methodist Church. She was the widow of Harry Oswalt.

Survivors include: brother, Henry W. Hardy of Clinton; and sister, Josephine Hardy Mason of Ridgeland.