Mrs. Vera Hammond, 85, of Adair died at 4 a.m. Friday, Jan. 31, 1975, at the Astoria Care Center.
She was born in McDonough County Jan. 10, 1890, a daughter of Edward and Lois Kerr Waters. She married R. H. Hammond on March 19, 1911. He died in 1936.
Surviving are one son, Gerald Hammond; one daughter, Mrs. William Clanin of Macomb; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
One son, four brothers and five sisters preceded her in death.
Mrs. Hammond was a member of Table Grove Christian Church, Macomb Grandmother’s Club and Ladies Home Economics Club of Adair.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon at Sargent Funeral Home in Macomb with Rev. Dan Johnson officiating. Burial was in the Table Grove City Cemetery.
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