Evelyn Marie (Klein) Hardesty, 86, of Friendship, MD passed away July 16, 2013 at Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick, MD. She was born February 8, 1927 in Prince Frederick to Harry Joseph and Ella Grierson Klein. Evelyn was raised in Chesapeake Beach and attended public schools in Calvert County, graduating from Calvert High in 1945. She was employed as an administrator with the Census Bureau for over thirty years. Evelyn married Eugene Perry Hardesty, Jr. on June 18, 1948 and has lived in Friendship since. She was a member of Friendship United Methodist Church. Evelyn loved to go shopping, traveling, taking trips to Pennsylvania and going to the Amish Market. She also enjoyed entertaining, hosting family cookouts, and was known for her crab cakes.

She was preceded in death by her parents and husband Eugene Perry Hardesty, Jr., a sister Theresa Reid and brothers George, Sr., Herbert, Sr. and Harry Klein. Evelyn is survived by a sister Emily M. Dixon of Huntingtown, seventeen nieces and nephews, and numerous great and great-great nieces and nephews.