Funeral services for Mrs. Philip I. (Elsie L.) Hammer who died Sunday, April 4 at the Methodist Home, will be held at 10 AM Wednesday in the Ladusau-Evans funeral home with Rev. Tony Dickerson of the Zion Baptist Church of Okeene officiating.
Graveside services will be held at 11 AM Thursday in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Topeka, Kansas.
Mrs. Hammer was born September 18, 1905 near Okeene, Oklahoma to John and Katherine Irion Laubach. She graduated from the Okeene high school, and attended Northwestern State University in Alva, Oklahoma, graduating with a bachelor of science degree. She was an elementary teacher for 16 years in Oklahoma and Kansas. She and Phillip I. Hammer were married August 27, 1944 and they established their home in Topeka, Kansas and started a Homebuilder business which they operated until their retirement. Mrs. Hammer was a member of the Seward Avenue Baptist Church in Topeka.
Surviving her are three sisters: Olivia Laubach of Enid, Bertha Geis of Mission Viejo, California and Lydia Ratkus of Torrance, California; six nephews and four nieces. She was preceded in death by her husband, three brothers and two sisters.
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