OBIT: Ella (Ebbecka) HAMMOND, 1932, native of Somerset County, PA

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ELLA HAMMOND

  Mrs. Ella Hammond, who suffered a long while from an illness, the exact nature 
of which various physicians who were consulted were unable to determine, passed 
away at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Ebbecka, on North Street, 
last Saturday evening.
  She was a native of Meyersdale, born 50 years ago on Feb. 3rd, last, and was 
one of Meyersdale's most capable and highly esteemed women.  She was educated in 
the Meyersdale public schools and graduated from the Meyersdale High School, 
after which she took a course of commercial training, typewriting and 
stenography in a business college then in operation in Meyersdale, and later was 
one of the instructors in that institution.
  Upon the formation of the Atlantic Coal Company, which operated mines in 
Somerset County, with headquarters in Meyersdale, Miss Ebbecka was retained as 
bookkeeper and stenographer, which position she filled with great efficiency for 
a number of years, until her marriage to Harry A. Hammond of Pittsburgh Nov. 1, 
1914.  After her marriage, her husband being a trainman in the employ of the 
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company, she and her husband made their home 
in Youngstown, Ohio, where he was employed.  They lived very happily together 
until Jan. 11, 1919, when Mr. Hammond lost his life by being thrown off a 
freight train of which he was conductor, in the Youngstown railroad yards, by 
the sudden bumping together of the cars while he was standing on top of a car 
and in the act of giving a signal.
  Soon after her bereavement she moved with her two young children to Stanwood, 
State of Washington, where she bought a home which she still owns.  After a few 
years' residence in the Far West, she returned with her children to the home of 
her parents in Meyersdale and was employed by the Meyersdale Planing Mill, as 
bookkeeper and accountant.  She also kept books for the Romesberg Coal Company 
of Garrett, and during several short periods was employed in the business office 
of the Meyersdale Republican.  All of Mrs. Hammond's employers gave her the 
highest praise for fidelity, thoroughness and efficiency as an office woman.
  Although her health was failing for several years, Mrs. Hammond did not give 
up her employment altogether until about six months ago.  During her long and 
severe illness she never complained about her affliction.  She bore her 
suffering most patiently and remained mentally alert and hopeful until relieved 
by death.
  Mrs. Hammond was a faithful and active member of the Lutheran Church from her 
childhood.  For many years she was one of the most popular teachers in the 
Lutheran Sunday School.  Not only did she take a lively interest in all the 
activities of her church, but in all local public welfare work and in the 
education and bringing up of her children, Charles H. Hammond, aged 16 at 
present, and Margaret Jane, aged 14, who have lost a most devoted and loving 
mother, and who by their good conduct and obedience were a great joy to her.
  Ella Ebbecka Hammond was also a most dutiful daughter and kind sister.  She is 
survived by her aged parents, two brothers, Vernon F. Ebbecka of St. Petersburg, 
Fla., and Thompson G. Ebbecka, of Meyersdale, and two sisters, Mrs. Edith 
Longerbeam and Miss Sanna Ebbecka.  One brother, Calvin A., died in infancy.
  Funeral services were held at the parental home at 3 o'clock Tuesday 
afternoon, conducted by her pastor, Rev. Howard K. Hilner.  The floral tributes 
were very numerous and beautiful.  The pallbearers were W. H. Deeter, W. H. 
Baldwin, R. H. Philson, R. D. Pfahler, Freeman Maul and James J. Hoblitzell.  
Interment was made in Union Cemetery under direction of J. L. Tressler.
  Among the relatives and friends attending the funeral were: the mother, two 
sisters and a brother of her deceased husband, Mrs. Amanda Hammond and Mrs. 
Charles E. Klingensmith, Edinboro, Pa.; Mrs. J. C. Toohill and James R. Hammond, 
Pittsburgh; also Rev. Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Truxal and Miss Rebekah Truxal, 
Somerset; Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Shaffer, York, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bills, 
Miss Edith Bills and Lewis Bills, Brier Hill, Pa.; Mrs. James Wardley, 
Connellsville; Mrs. John Coldsmith, Mt. Pleasant; Mr. and Mrs. Sheffler, 
Wilkinsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Romesberg, Frederick, Md.; Mrs. H. A. Jenkins, 
Mrs. George Farmer, Mrs. Robert Crone and Mrs. Zihlman, Cumberland, Md.

Meyersdale Republican, September 22, 1932