Hamm- Mary Harper - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Mrs. Lonnie Hamm, who was run down by an auto driven by Herbert Raymond at the Myer corner at the crossing of the Dixie Highway and County Line Road west of town as she was leaving a Crawfordsville and Danville bus on the 3rd of last month lingered until Friday of last week when she passed away at Culver Hospital Crawfordsville where she had been taken following the accident.  Mrs. Hamm had suffered serious bruises and a fracture of the pelvic bone from the accident and had undergone an operation in the hope of her recovery, but without success. The accident was a very regretable one, but Mrs. Hamm, we are told, did not blame the boy for her misfortune, but said she stepped from the rear of the bus directly in front of the machine driven by Young Raymond and was run down.  Following her death Mrs. Hamm was taken to her home at 701 Milligan Street, Crawfordsville where a brief funeral service was held Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock after which the remains were brought here and the funeral service was conducted from the Christian Church by Rev. Wilkinson, pastor of the First Christian Church of Crawfordsville at 2:30 and interment was made at the Masonic Cemetery, Mrs. Hamm was born Dec 17, 1884 at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel V. Harper, southwest of Waynetown and was well known by everyone.  She united with the Ingersoll Christian Church when a girl and in 1902, she was unite din marriage with Lonnie Hamm who survives her with three children, Harold, Thelma and Irvin.  Her father, DV Harper also surives her. The funeral service here Sunday was largely attended and general sorrow felt by eery one because of her untimely taking away from husband, children, father and friends.  - kz