Judith Darlene Hammer
May 31, 1938 - August 8, 2023
It was getting late in the fall, and Harold, Pete, and Tony were driving out of the meadow when Tony saw an elk. In fact, it was the day before elk hunting season. Without thinking Harold grabbed his rifle and shot the elk. He took it home and we all had elk for supper. It was good, but that was all we had.
From the 136-year history of the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado.
Judith Darlene Hammer
May 31, 1938 - August 8, 2023
We bought a nice house in Moorefield, a town of about fifty people, fifteen miles east of Curtis. This was the only time in our life we lived in an incorporated town except for college.
From the 136-year history of the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado.
Judith Darlene Hammer
May 31, 1938 - August 8, 2023
My Baker grandparents had moved from the farm in Hanover into Fountain. Judy, I and Tony lived in their house that summer and the next summer. The second summer the house was a dirty mess because the mice had moved into it during the winter.
Judith Darlene Hammer
May 31, 1938 - August 8, 2023
Judy and I got married August 25, just before I started my sophomore year. This was the wildest wedding ever, bar none. We were married in the First Methodist Church in Colorado Springs.
I had Hammer cousins from the mountains and Baker cousins from the prairie. Judy had cousins from Kansas.
From the 136-year archives of the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado, for September 3, 2023.
In politics, lack of emotion is usually a drawback.
Judith Darlene Hammer
May 31, 1938 - August 8, 2023
I, Ernest Hammer, was raised on a ranch fifteen miles southeast of Fountain. Fountain was a small farming community south of Colorado Springs.
When I was in school there were twenty eight kids in the first grade and thirty two when we graduated in 1956. About seventy percent of us started together in the first grade.
The public is invited to visit Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site September 8-9.
