Joseph R. Hammond died at 5:10 p.m. yesterday at the Wheat Road Lodge.

Born Feb. 8, 1903 at Harrison, Ark., the son of Findley and Mariam Hammond he was married to Julia Gilreath Dec. 4, 1926, in Tulsa, Okla. Returning to Winfield in June of this year from Shamrock, Okla., they had previously lived in the Douglass and Winfield areas until two and a half years ago.

He was employed as a machinist at Boeing until his retirement due to ill health approximately six years ago.

Survivors include his widow; one daughter, Mrs. Charles (Betty) Stiner, Winfield; three grandsons, Churck, Kenneth and Robert, Winfield; and one sister Mrs. Floy Hungerford, Hawthorne, Nev.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday at the Swisher-Taylor Chapel with the Rev. John House of Oxford officiating. Burial will be in the Highland Cemetery.

Submitted by Bobbi Dunn, September 2009