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Chester W Hammond

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Chester W Hammond

Birth
Sumner, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Death
14 Mar 1973 (aged 72)
Casco, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
Burial
South Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA Add to Map
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s/o Wesley and Fidelia (Putnam) Hammond; h/o Doris Merrill whom he married in 1921.

He attended South Paris, ME schools and the University of Maine, Orono and later attended the Northern Conservatory of Music in Bangor, ME.

He was a music instructor in Presque Isle, ME; Gardiner, ME and Camden, ME schools.

He had been active in the Maine Music Festivals and the New England Festivals having conducted many groups at those concerts.

Prior to his teaching career he was a violinist with both the Portland, ME and the Boston, MA Symphony Orchestras.

He is survived by his wife Doris; two daughters Mrs Joan Parer of Bethel, ME; Mrs Dorothy Chamberlain of South Casco, ME; a sister Mrs Clara Davis of South Paris, ME.
s/o Wesley and Fidelia (Putnam) Hammond; h/o Doris Merrill whom he married in 1921.

He attended South Paris, ME schools and the University of Maine, Orono and later attended the Northern Conservatory of Music in Bangor, ME.

He was a music instructor in Presque Isle, ME; Gardiner, ME and Camden, ME schools.

He had been active in the Maine Music Festivals and the New England Festivals having conducted many groups at those concerts.

Prior to his teaching career he was a violinist with both the Portland, ME and the Boston, MA Symphony Orchestras.

He is survived by his wife Doris; two daughters Mrs Joan Parer of Bethel, ME; Mrs Dorothy Chamberlain of South Casco, ME; a sister Mrs Clara Davis of South Paris, ME.


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