Obit.Cherokee County,OK John Hammond ================================================================================ USGenWeb NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free Information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ====================================================== Submitted by Terrill White on 4Mar2008 John Hammond TAHLEQUAH – Services for John Hammond, 85, of Tahlequah, will be held at 2 p.m., Monday, Feb. 25, 2008, in the Green Country Funeral Home Chapel. Officiating will be John Shaver.Serving as pallbearers are Mike Howell, Eric Hammond, Adam Tollison, Patrick Roblez, Don Hanna, and Terry Thompson. Interment will follow in the Hulbert IOOF Cemetery under the care of Green Country Funeral Home.John was born Nov. 4, 1922, in Quincy, Ill., the son of Thomas Hammond and Sarah Jane (Dilly) Hammond-Smith. He died on Feb. 22, 2008, in Tahlequah. He married Evelyn Harmon on Aug 3, 1945, and fathered five children: John Robert, Romona, Debra, Sandra, and Roger.John has been preceded in death by his parents, his brothers George William “Bill,” Francis Oliver, Alvin, and Henry; sisters Lillian Jordon, and Helen Smith Green; two daughters, an infant, Romona, in 1949, and Debra Cunningham in 2004.Cherishing his memory are his loving wife of 63 years, Evelyn Hammond; sons, John Robert of Tahlequah, Roger and his wife Tammie of Tahlequah; daughter Sandra Powell and her husband Larry of Hulbert; a son-in-law, Bill Cunningham; three granddaughters, Rebecca Tollison, Jennifer Reynolds, and Morgan Thompson; four grandsons, Mike Howell, Eric Hammond, Josh Hammond, and Dwight Greer; six great-grandchildren Alexandria Tollison Jayden Thompson, Nathan Hammond, Natasha Hammond, Maygen Tolison, and Lynsey Tollison; and many other relatives, friends, and loved ones too numerous to mention.