Hammer Rites
ELKTON, Jan. 24 — A large throng attended the Samuel P. Hammer funeral rites from the Elkton EUB Church Sunday. The floral offering was beautiful. The Rev. W. J. Westfall officiated and burial was in Elk Run cemetery.
Mr. Hammer who died at the Newman Nursing home at Grottoes, had been ill for some time.
He was a member of one of the best known families in this area. Among his brother was the late Charles A. Hammer, Harrisonburg postmaster.
He is survived by a brother, Wilmer I. Hammer and a sister, Miss Annie Hammer, of Harrisonburg. The pallbearers were L. C. Meadows, Irving Herring, Erasmus Hensley, Dennis Monger, Earl Life and Herman Longley.
He was a son of Joseph C. and Florence Margaret Sandridge.
Harrisonburg Daily News Record, January 25, 1955
[Newspaper error: Florence Margaret Sandridge was his wife, not his mother.]
Hammer Rites
ELKTON, Jan. 24 — A large throng attended the Samuel P. Hammer funeral rites from the Elkton EUB Church Sunday. The floral offering was beautiful. The Rev. W. J. Westfall officiated and burial was in Elk Run cemetery.
Mr. Hammer who died at the Newman Nursing home at Grottoes, had been ill for some time.
He was a member of one of the best known families in this area. Among his brother was the late Charles A. Hammer, Harrisonburg postmaster.
He is survived by a brother, Wilmer I. Hammer and a sister, Miss Annie Hammer, of Harrisonburg. The pallbearers were L. C. Meadows, Irving Herring, Erasmus Hensley, Dennis Monger, Earl Life and Herman Longley.
He was a son of Joseph C. and Florence Margaret Sandridge.
Harrisonburg Daily News Record, January 25, 1955
[Newspaper error: Florence Margaret Sandridge was his wife, not his mother.]
Family Members
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Jesse Edward Hammer
1901–1977
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Homer Patrick Hammer
1903–1967
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Elmer Warren "Nat" Hammer
1906–1974
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Willis Showalter Hammer
1908–1980
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Carl Hammer
1910–1910
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Violet May Hammer
1912–1912
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Joseph Gordon Hammer
1913–1977
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Arbutus Marie Hammer Strickler
1915–1994
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Margaretta Virginia Hammer
1916–1997
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Phillip Johnson "Pete" Hammer
1918–1947
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Roberta Elizabeth Hammer Davis
1920–1974
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Lucille Frances Hammer Hensley
1923–2011
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