In memoriam: Joe Hardy

One of America’s LBM giants, 84 Lumber, is mourning the death of its founder, Joe Hardy, earlier this week on his 100th birthday. Hardy founded his firm in the hamlet of Eighty Four, Pa., just south of Pittsburgh, in 1956. He passed the reins of the company to his daughter, Maggie Hardy Knox, in 1992. With some 250 stores, 84 Lumber posted revenues of $3.9 billion in 2020.