Mrs. Lorraine Todd Hardee, age 91, passed away on Friday, December 3, 2021 at Commonwealth Senior Living in Hampton. Lorraine was born in the Mt. Vernon area of Horry County, South Carolina on March 6, 1930 and was the daughter and first born child of Lewis Talmadge Todd and Isabelle Edge Todd. Lorraine's parents moved to the Cherry Hill section of Horry County when she was a toddler. Lorraine had many stories to tell of growing up on a farm and enjoyed sharing them with her family. After graduating from high school, she attended college and played basketball. She loved basketball and began her freshman year playing as a starter. Lorraine was still shooting baskets in her kitchen in her eighties.

Lorraine taught early elementary school forty years before retiring from Newport News Public Schools. Upon retirement, she continued to teach in China teaching English in the summers for several years. She began to travel to Israel, Germany, France, and continued to visit family in Myrtle Beach, SC.

Lorraine was predeceased by her parents Lewis Talmadge and Isabelle Edge Todd; her first born child, Cheryl Hardee; her sister and brother-in-law, Louise Todd Cox and John Cox and their son Johnny Ray Cox; her brother and sister-in-law, L. T. Todd and Delano Todd and their son Steven Todd. Lorraine was also predeceased by her husband, Isaac B. Hardee, which had previously ended in divorce. Lorraine leaves behind sons, Ronald B. Hardee, Kelly D. Hardee and his wife, Deborah Hardee; a daughter Cindy H. Stearman and her husband, Douglas Stearman. Lorraine was a grandmother to Joshua Hardee, Jason Hardee and his wife Christine, Jesse Hardee, Hadassah Stearman, Jonathan Stearman, Joseph Stearman, and James Stearman and was the proud great grandmother of Charlotte, Hadley, and Archer Hardee. Lorraine also leaves behind loving nieces and nephews.

A service celebrating her life will be held at Liberty Baptist Church Chapel, 1021 Big Bethel Road, Hampton, on Friday, December 10, 2021 at 10:00 AM. Visitation will be held at 9:00 AM prior to the service. Burial will follow in Peninsula Memorial Park, Newport News.

Arrangements by W. J. Smith & Son Funeral Home.