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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ William Henry Hammond ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Hammond, William Henry
LAST NAME: Hammond FIRST NAME: William MIDDLE NAME: Henry NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 9 Feb 1920 DIED: 6 Oct 1953 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Butte, Silver Bow Co, Montana
DEATH PLACE: Parks Air Force Base, Alameda Co, California
NOTES: 

BIRTH – William Henry Hammond born 9 Feb 1920, Butte, Silver Bow Co, Montana; father George H. Hammond (39y, of Ovando, Montana); mother Catherine Macleod (37y, of Ovando, Montana, mother of 5 children, 4 living)

1930 MT CENSUS - William Hammond, age 10, b. Montana, is enumerated with  Geo. H., age 49, married at age 27, occupation farmer, b. Montana, Katherine A., age 48, married at age 25, b. Canada, George L., age 21, b. Montana, McLeod W., age 19, b. Montana, and Elizabeth, age 13, b. Montana 

DEATH – William Henry Hammond b 9 Feb 1920, Montana; mother’s maiden name Macleod; died 6 Oct 1953, Alameda Co, California

DISCREPANCY - marker gives wrong birth date

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OBITUARY: 

A former Salem resident, Air Force Sgt William Henry Hammond, died Tuesday at Parks Air Force Base, Calif, from leukemia. The sergeant son of Mr and Mrs George H. Hammond of Route 1, Box 657, Salem, was stricken with the disease last March while in Korea, where he had been stationed since last January. He was brought back to the States in June and hospitalized at March Air Force base. Hammond, a veteran of World War II, serving as a pilot, during that war was shot down over Germany and spent 14 months in a German prison camp. He made his home in Salem from 1945 until 1947 and then resided in Los Angeles with his wife, Doris, and two children, Randolph and Karen. Surviving besides the wife and children and the parents are two brothers, Walter M. Hammond and George L. Hammond, both of Salem; and a sister, Betty Jane Hammond of San Francisco. Announcement of funeral services will be made later by the Clough-Barrick chapel.

Capital Journal, Saturday, October 10, 1953, page 17

INSCRIPTION: 

William Henry Hammond
Oregon
1st Lt  3705 Base Unit AF
World War II
Feb 9, 1923 - Oct 6, 1953

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

Montana County Birth Records (Ancestry.com) 
1930 MT CENSUS (Carbon Co., School Dist. 1, ED 4, sheet 1B)

California Death Index

 

CJ, 10 Oct 1953, page 17

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