Date of birth: 21 Mar 1885
Date of death: 10 Sep 1971

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Burial Information

Section 09 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0337-09
Status: Occupied

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Notes

Obituary
Funeral Services For Mrs. Hammett Held Sunday

Funeral services were held Sunday, September 12, 1971, at 3:00 P.M. at Antioch Baptist Church for Mrs. Flossie Dodd Hammett, 86 of Lexington. Rev. David Pratt officiated with burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Lexington.

Mrs. Hammett died Friday September 10, at the Holmes County Community Hospital.

A native of Holmes County, she was the daughter of the late Rodulphous Dodd and Lou Bailey. She was a widow. Mrs. Hammett was a housewife and a member of the Antioch Baptist Church.

She is survived by nine daughters Miss Lela Mae Hammett, Biloxi; Mrs. Andrew Hearn, Lexington; Mrs. A. C. Bernhard, Greenwood; Mrs. R. E. Elledge, Greenwood; Mrs. C. W. Seymour, Jacksonville, Fla.; Mrs. A. W. Witt; Mrs. B. T. Allen and Mrs. Ray Martin, all of Dallas; and Mrs. John R. Booth, Lexington; four sons, Dolph Hammett, Lexington; Jim Hammett, Dallas; Bud Hammett, Dallas; and B. R. Hammett, Jr. Jacksonville, Fla.; one brother Jeff Dodd, West; four sisters, Mrs. Clifton Williams, Tchula; Mrs. J. N. Hall, Jackson; Mrs. Norville McCarty, Durant, and Miss Geneva Dodd, Durant, 49 grandchildren and 45 great grandchildren.

Active pallbearers were her grandsons.

Holmes County Herald - Page 3
September 16, 1971

Marker Inscription

Wife of Benjamin R. Hammett

Family Relations of Flossie Mae Dodd Hammett

Parents:

Rudolphus Edward Dodd, Sr.

Frances Louise Bailey Dodd

Siblings:

Cain Vernon Dodd, Sr.

Leila Dodd Porter

John Edgar Dodd

Rudolphus Edward Dodd, Jr.

Flossie Mae Dodd Hammett

James Norman Dodd

Julia Elizabeth Dodd Lawley

William Jefferson Dodd

Geneva Dodd

Joanna Dodd Screws

Elizabeth Dodd McCarty

Jessie Louise Dodd Jones

Spouse:

Benjamin Richard Hammett

Children:

Lelia Mae Hammett

Addie Hammett Hearn

William J. Hammett, Sr.

Hilda Hammett Bernhard

Fern Ruth Hammett Elledge

Rudolphus Dodd Hammett

Jo Hammett King

Maggie Elizabeth Hammett Martin

Mildred Ercile Hammett Witt

Bess Hammett Allen

Robert Allen Hammett

Research Notes

There is another Flossie Dodd Hammett interred in the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. While Flossie Dodd Hammett is not listed in Find-A-Grave as a child, it may be that Mrs. Hammett gave birth to Flossie, and the baby was named after her.

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