Ambrose Hammond

04-19-2007

© Enid News and Eagle

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

©Glenn

A graveside service for Ambrose “Tiny” Hammond, 77, will be 11 a.m. Saturday in Bethel Cemetery, northeast of Amorita. Don Angle will officiate. Arrangements are by Goodwin Funeral Home, Cherokee. Visitation will be 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the funeral home.

He was born Aug. 22, 1929, in Lake, Miss., to William Seabron and Helen Mae Hollifield Hammond and died Sunday, April 15, 2007, in West Monroe, La.

He grew up in Mississippi and northeastern Louisiana and graduated from high school in Newellton, La. He joined the Air Force in 1950 and served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.

He married Dixie Lou Hill in 1964 at McConnell Air Force Base. They lived in various locations while he served in the military. He retired in 1971 after 21 years. They moved to Amorita in 1972, then to Byron in 1973. She died May 25, 2003.

He worked for Alfalfa County Rural Water District, Oklahoma Rural Water Association and the water department for city of Cherokee.

Surviving are two sons, Timothy Owen Hammond of Fairbanks, Alaska, and Paul Wayne Hammond of Portland, Ore.; four sisters, Lela of Oak Grove, La., Cora of Angola, Ind., Georgia of Winsboro, La., and Alice of Monroe, La.; two brothers, Bill of Washington state and A.J. of England; and one grandson.

In addition to his wife, Dixie, he was preceded in death by one brother.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Oklahoma Medical Research Cancer Fund.

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