from May 19, 1993 issue of The Country Chronicle<\/p>\n
Ronald C. \u201cSKIP\u201d Hammond, 82, died Saturday evening May 15, 1993, at the Brookside Nursing Home in Bradford, VT, following a long illness.\u00a0 He was born in Mason, NH, on August 1, 1910, the son of the late \u201cFRED\u201d and Annie (Hay) Hammond.\u00a0 He had been a lifelong resident of the same home in Orange, NH, and we owner and operator of F.C. Hammond Lumber Co. of Canaan, NH.<\/p>\n
\u201cSkip\u201d was a charter member of the Canaan Lions Club, and was a lifelong member of the Cardigan Mountain Fish & Game Club.\u00a0 He was a Deputy State Fire Warden; had served on the Mascoma Valley Regional School Board; was active on Orange town affairs; and was an avid horse pulling enthusiast.<\/p>\n
He was married to Nina R. Jones on Jan. 30, 1952.<\/p>\n
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 2 PM in the Canaan United Methodist Church.\u00a0 Burial will follow in the Wells Cemetery in Canaan. The Rev. Peter Hey will officiate.\u00a0 In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial contributions be made to: Mascoma Home Health Services, Main Street, Canaan, NH, 03741.<\/p>\n
Survivors include his wife, Nina R. (Jones) Hammond of Orange; four daughters \u2013 Jeanette Stillson of Enfield, Helen Rocke and Debra Clark of Canaan, and Linda Jones of Orange; two sons \u2013 Fred and Vincent, both of Canaan, many grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins, and several great-grandchildren.\u00a0 Mr. Hammond was preceded in death by his father, Alfred, and mother, Annie, and two brothers \u2013 Raymond and Walter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
from May 19, 1993 issue of The Country Chronicle Ronald C. \u201cSKIP\u201d Hammond, 82, died Saturday evening May 15, 1993, at the Brookside Nursing Home in Bradford, VT, following a long illness.\u00a0 He was born in Mason, NH, on August 1, 1910, the son of the late \u201cFRED\u201d and Annie (Hay) Hammond.\u00a0 He had been … Continue reading Ronald C. “Skip” Hammond<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hammond","tag-orange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}