Stephani Layne Hardy entered her heavenly home peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday morning, Sept. 9, 2025. She was preceded in death by her mother, Fleta Kate Hardy, and her mother-in-law, Peg Cantwell. Stephani was born on June 13, 1957, in Hillsboro, Texas, where she lived with her mother, Kate, and grandmother, Thelma Garrison. Later, they moved to Dallas and lived with her aunt, Marie Garrison, where Stephani delighted in her large extended family of aunts, uncles, and cousins. In Dallas, Kate met Vernon Hardy at church; and when they married, he lovingly adopted and raised Stephani as his own daughter.