Virginia Hammer

Virginia D. Hammer, 85, died Tuesday, June 8, 1999 at Augusta Medical Center.

She was born January 2, 1914, at Blue Grass, a daughter of Frank C. and Bonnie K. (Wimer) Wimer.

She retired from the Aileen Corp. at Monterey and was a member of Central United Methodist church at Blue Grass.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Leonard H. Hammer on November 10, 1978; a daughter, Betty H. Hogshead, on March 17, 1993; a grandson Gregory Hogshead, on June 12, 1982; a son-in-law, Charles H. Hogshead on January 26, 1988; three brothers, Miller, Alfred and Eugene Wimer; and a sister, Margaret Hall.

She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Sandy and Bill Bratton of Warm Springs; three grandchildren, Shawna Bratton of Staunton, Shelley Thomas and her husband, Jed of Mustoe and George L. Hogshead and his wife Kathy of Matthews, N.C.; three great-grandchildren, Laura, Sarah and Greg Hogshead of Matthews, N.C.; and four sisters, Kathryn Mauzy of Monterey, Janet Pulley of Springfield, Dorothy W. Hevener of Hightown and Ruth Mauzy of Orlando, Florida.

A service will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Thursday at Obaugh Funeral Home by the Revs. James W. Moore and Jerry Ginn with burial in Blue Grass Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Robert Mauzy, John and Bill Wagner, Robert G. Hammer, John Reybnolds and Julian Pulley.

Honorary pallbearers will be C. Dice Hammer, Charles Waybright, Larry Whitecotton, Charles Rexrode, C.E. Hammer, and friends attending the service.

The family will receive friends at the home of Bill and Sandy Bratton in Warm Springs.

There will be no public viewing.

Memorials may be made to the Highland County Rescue Squad, PO Box 268, Monterey, Va. 24465 or the Blue Grass Cemetery Association, Blue Grass, Va. 24413.