OBIT: Kenneth H. HAMM, 1974, Hanover, York County, PA

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Kenneth H. Hamm, 60, Hanover, R. 1, died Friday at Hanover General Hospital.

He was the first stallion master at Hanover Shoe Co. Farms and spent 40 years 
with the Standard Bred Nursery. Highlights of Hamm's career included being the 
first to ever harness the world-champion pacer, Bret Hanover, and working with 
Titan Hanover, first two-minute trotter and Hamm's favorite colt. He directed a 
staff of five.

Hamm was a son of the late Hugh K. and Ruth Cromer Hamm. He was a member of the 
Littlestown VFW Social club. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Della L. Hamm; his 
step-mother, Mrs. Mary Hamm, of Hanover R. 5; a daughter, Mrs. Judy Grove, of 
Hanover; a brother, Richard, of Hanover; four sisters, Dorothy Hamm, of 
Baltimore, Mrs. Helen Yost, of Hanover, Mrs. Ann Shaffer, of West Palm Beach and 
Mrs. Jean Adams of Wilmington; a half-sister, Mrs. Linda Gross, of Dover, and 
four grandchildren.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at First Methodist Church, Hanover, with 
his pastor, the Rev. Robert Sheffpsy officiating. Burial will be at Mt. Olivet 
Cemetery. Friends may call tonight from 7 to 9 at the Wetzel funeral home at 549 
Carlisle St. Hanover.

The Gettysburg Times, Monday, April 8, 1974