Career
She spent her early adult life in Saginaw, Michigan, but from 1975 lived in Los Los Angeles She died at age 76. Hardaway co-wrote many of her son"s songs during his teenage years, including the hit singles "I Was Made to Love Her", "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I"m Yours", "You Met Your Match" and "I Don"t Know Why I Love You", co-writing 4 songs on the 1968 album Foreign Once in My In 1974, Hardaway was with her then-23-year-old son at the Hollywood Palladium when he received his first Grammy, one of various he received that night. Wonder purchased a house for his mother in the San Fernando Valley, where she enjoyed a life of churchgoing, fishing, horse racing and cooking, including what family members called a "legendary peach cobbler."
Hardaway was the subject of a 2002 authorized biography entitled Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder"s Mother () by Dennis Love and Stacy Brown.
She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.