Sine Belle Hammon
HAMMON, TUCKER, DANIELS, KAHLER, JONES
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Date: 1/6/2017 at 22:53:17
Thursday April 1, 1920 The Marion Weekly Sentinel
Obituary of Miss Hammon
Sina Belle Hammon, daughter of George and Ellen Hammon was born on a farm southeast of Marion, in the Mt. Zion neighborhood, December 6, 1882. She passed from this life on Monday, March 29, 1920, at St. Luke's hospital, Cedar Rapids, aged 37 years, 3 months and 23 days.
After the father's death in 1904, the family left the farm and established a new home at 115 North Eleventh Street in the city of Marion. Of the four daughters, three married and moved elsewhere, but Sina remained at home a companion of the widowed mother. She was everything a daughter should be, and the loss to the mother in her going away is incalculable.
During childhood and early womanhood, Miss Hammon was apparently in perfect health, but about sixteen years ago serious trouble developed which was to mean many weary days of suffering and which finally took her life.
Her optimism and courage were a marvel to all who knew her. Five times she went to the hospital for surgical treatment; and when it was decided that she must pass thru the same ordeal for the sixth time with the issue very much in doubt, there was no word of complaint and no sign of fear. In periods between hospital visits, she refused to play the role of an invalid, and insisted on doing real work, believeing that activity was conductive to both happiness and health. Doubtless, she lived longer and more joyfully because of this, and it certainly made her life an inspiration to others. The end came quickly and quietly.
She "shuddered for a moment, then awoke in the bright sunlight of the other life." She will be much at home in HEaven, among "those who have come up out of great tribulations and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb."
Besides the mother, she is survived by three sisters: Mrs. Claude Daniels, Pine City, Minn., Mrs. Fred Kahler, Ladora, Iowa; and Mrs. Glenn Jones, of Marion.
Funeral services, attended by a large company of friends, were held at the family residence at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday and were conducted by Rev. A.H. Hanscom. Burial was in Oak Shade cemetery.
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