Date of birth: 05 Aug 1911
Date of death: 17 Jan 1976

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Burial Information

Section 02 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 208A-05
Status: Occupied

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Marker at the foot of grave

Birth: 05 Aug 1911 - Holmes Co., MS
Death: 17 Jan 1976 - Tchula, Holmes Co., MS

Obituary

Lexington Businessman
Dies Suddenly Saturday
Funeral services for Harold Pinkney Hammett, Sr., 64, who died of an apparent heart attack Saturday while hunting near Tchula, were held at 2 p.m. Monday, January 19 from First United Methodist Church of Lexington.

Burial was in Odd Fellows Cemetery with Rev. E.S. Furr officiating. Southern Funeral Home of Lexington as in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Hammett was long time president of Hammett Gravel Co. of Lexington. He was a member of the Board of Stewarts and the Board of Trustees of the First United Methodist Church.

He was a native of Holmes County and his parents were the late William P. Hammett Sr. and Laura Moore.

Survivors include; his wife, Mrs. Gwendolyn Meek Hammett, Lexington; one son, Harold P. Hammett. Jr., Lexington: five daughters, Mrs. Boyd Kellum, Jr., Jackson, Mrs. Danny Britt, Hattiesburg, Mrs. Richard Atkinson, Miss Fran Hammett, and Miss Sara Lynn Hammett, all of Lexington; three brothers, Max E. Hammett, Hazlehurst, Curtis Hammett, Memphis, Tenn., and W. P. Hammett, Jr., Lexington; two sisters. Mrs. F. S. Ewing, Sinton, Tex., and Mrs. F. O. Ferguson, Ft. Worth, Tex.: and seven grandchildren.

Pallbearers were: Pat Barrett Jr., Don Barrett, Ed Wilburn Hooker, Bootsy Hooker, Alfred Porter, Mac Phillips, J.C. Patton and Heywood Carter Green.

Honorary pallbearers were friends of the family.

The Holmes County Herald – Page 1
Lexington, MS
January 22, 1976

Family Relations of Harold Pinkey Hammett, Sr.

Parents:
William Pinkney Hammett, Sr.
Laura Moore Hammett

Siblings:
Ben Moore Hammett
Harold Pinkey Hammett, Sr.
Laura Frances Hammett Ferguson
William Pinkney Hammett, Jr.

Spouse:
Gwendolyn Meek Hammett

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