Harold Hubbard

Born in Bedford County, GA on June 21, 1930 Departed on October 14, 2015 and resided in Hendersonville, TN Visitation: Hendersonville Funeral Home Room: ChapelSunday October 18, 2015 1:00pm to 6:00pmMonday October 19, 2015 11:00am to 2:00pmLife Celebration: Hendersonville Funeral Home Room: ChapelMonday October 19, 2015 2:00pm to 3:00pmInterment: Hendersonville Memory GardensMonday October 19, 2015 3:00pm to 3:30pm

Harold "Hal" Earl Hubbard passed on in the presence of his loving family at
the age of 85 years on Wednesday afternoon, October 14, 2015.

Born at the dawn of the Great Depression in a log cabin on a Bedford County
farm near the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Hal learned hunting and
farming from his father and uncles. His rural roots were reflected
throughout his life in a love of the outdoors, fishing and hunting. He
attended Lynchburg, Virginia's E.C. Glass High School, where he excelled in
football as well as track and field. Thanks in part to the guidance of his
football coach, Vincent Bradford (for whom his first son was named), Hal
sought and received a full scholarship to the University of Tennessee where
he played on the 1951 National Championship Football Team.

Hal married his high school sweetheart Betty Crews and they started their
family while he served in the United States Army at Fort Benning, Georgia.
He graduated from U.T. with a degree in business and spent his young family
life in Knoxville, Johnson City, and Murfreesboro, Tennessee. In 1968, they
settled in the Hendersonville, Tennessee home where he would spend the
majority of his life. Hal took great pride and pleasure in maintaining his
lawn and loved grilling out and otherwise enjoying the patio where he spent
hours watching the birds he fed faithfully.

As a young college graduate, Hal demonstrated a gift for teaching and sales.
He worked for over three decades as a pharmaceutical representative,
continuing well beyond the minimum retirement age and remaining active into
his 70s. In 2013, Hal moved to NHC Healthcare Hendersonville nursing home
where he benefitted greatly from the profoundly loving relationship which
developed among him, his family, and the very gifted and caring staff there.

Hal was preceded in death by his parents Luther & Rose Ellen Hubbard, his
step-mother, Carrie Hubbard, his loving wife Betty, his sisters Alice and
Ann, and his brothers, Raymond and Bill. Hal is survived by his sisters
Louise Goff, Helen Camden, and June Mutispaugh, his sons, Todd, Brad, and
Mark Hubbard, and his granddaughter, Amber McGee.