Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon
Rites Today For Albert James Hammack
Albert James Hammack, of Deer Island, son of Mrs. Zelma Hammack of La Grande, and the late Floyd W. Hammack, passed away on Monday morning May 22, 1967 in a hospital at St. Helens following an illness of two weeks.
Funeral services are being held today, Thursday, at 11 a.m. at the Lostine Presbyterian Church and Internment will be in the Lostine Cemetery.
Albert was born at Lostine January 28, 1917, and graduated from the Lostine high school. He was a farmer by occupation and had lived at Deer Island for several years. On December 8, 1938 he was married at Walla Walla to Marion Edwards of Wallowa who survives him.
Other survivors include four sons, Donald of Lostine and Jim, Chester and Glann, all at Deer Island; his mother, Mrs. Zelma Hammack and a sister, Mrs. Edward (Velva) Hoffman, both of La Grande, three brothers, Lyle, Charles and Ross, all of Portland; and two granddaughters.
Wallowa County Chieftain, Thursday, May 25, 1967, Front Page Contributed by: Sue Wells