OBIT: John Richard HAMM, 1973, New Oxford, Adams County, PA

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 ‘DICK’ HAMM, RETIRED RURAL CARRIER, DIES

John Richard Hamm, 75, Carlisle St, New Oxford, a retired rural mailman who was 
an active churchman and lodgeman, died Sunday morning at 1:20 o’clock at the 
Brethren Home at Cross Keys after a long illness.

He was a native of Hanover, and a son of John D. and Annie M. Klinefelter Hamm. 
He was a veteran of World War I, entering the service in November 1918. He 
received his discharge in 1919. He has been graduated from Hanover High School 
in 1918.

Mr. Hamm had served as a rural mail carrier out of the New Oxford office from 
1935 to 1965.

ACTIVE IN CHURCH

He was a member of the First Lutheran Church of New Oxford where he had served 
on the Church Council, and had taught the Men’s Bible Class for many years.

He was a past master of the Hebron Lodge No 465 of the Masons of New Oxford, and 
belonged to the Harrisburg Consistory, the Zembo Shrine, and was a past 
commander of the Knights Templar of Hanover. He was also a past high priest of 
the Royal Arch Chapter of Hanover, and a member of Penn Council No 67 Royal and 
Select Masters of Hanover.

The deceased was a charter member of the New Oxford Fire company and belonged to 
the Albert J. Lentz Post of the American Legion of Gettysburg. He was a member 
of the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, and was a past president of 
the Rural Mail Carriers Association. He was a member of the Patriotic Order Sons 
of America of Gettysburg.

FUNERAL WEDNESDAY

Surviving are his wife, Vivian M. Strambaugh Hamm; a daughter, Mrs. Alfred 
Seagraves, Hanover; three grandchildren and one great grandchild; three 
brothers, Walter J. Hamm, New Oxford R. 1; Robert F., Hanover, and J. Donald, 
McSherrystown.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Feiser 
Funeral Home in New Oxford with pastor, the Rev. Harry N. Bowman, officiating. 
Internment will be made in the New Oxford Cemetery. Friends may call at the 
funeral home Tuesday evening from 7 to 9, and Masonic rites will be conducted 
there at 8:30 p.m.


The Gettysburg Times, Monday Evening, December 31, 1973


HAMM SERVICES

Funeral services for John Richard Hamm, 75, Carlisle St., New Oxford, a retired 
rural mailman, who died Dec 30 were held Wednesday at the Feiser Funeral Home, 
New Oxford, with Rev Harry N. Bowman officiating. Internment was in New Oxford 
cemetery. The eight pallbearers all nephews were Donald and Walter Hamm, Herbert 
Freed, Jere Dubs, Bertram Elsner, and Wayne, William and Gordon Stambaugh.

The Gettysburg Times, Thursday, January 3, 1974