Ella Hammond Obituary

Ella Rae Hammond ROCK HILL, SC - Ella Rae Hawkins Hammond, 78, 2595 Bonnybrook Circle, passed away Tuesday, January 2, 2013 at White Oak Manor. Memorial services will be 2:00 P.M. Saturday, January 5, 2013 at Greene Funeral Home Northwest Chapel, 2133 Ebenezer Road, Rock Hill, SC 29732 with Reverend Ned Duncan officiating. Burial will be private. The family will receive friends at the funeral home immediately following the memorial service. A native of Winnsboro, SC, Mrs. Hammond was the daughter of the late Annie Louise Christmas and H. A. Hawkins, Sr. and the widow of Earnest Ray Hammond and Floyd Shugart. She was a homemaker and a member of West End Baptist Church. Surviving are two sons, Chris Allen Hammond and wife, Stephanie, of Charleston, SC and Lee Charles Hammond and wife, Michelle, of Lancaster, SC; her daughter, Julie Lynn Hammond Kruszeck; two brothers, H.A. "Butch" Hawkins, Jr. and wife, Lib and Carl Walker and wife, Barbara of Fort Mill; three half-brothers, Doug Hawkins, Glenn Hawkins and Donnie Hawkins; six grandchildren, Brittanie Hammond, Aubrie Hammond, Abigail Hammond, Emma Hammond, and Alex Hammond, as well as Ray Kennington, whom she raised. In addition to her parents and two husbands, Mrs. Hammond was preceded in death by her son, Frank Hammond, her sister, Cathy Lewis and two half-brothers, Frank Hawkins and Wendell "Bugs" Hawkins.. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to The American Cancer Society, 128 Stonemark Lane, Columbia, SC 29710 or to Hospice & Community Care, P. O. Box 993, Rock Hill, SC 29731. Condolences may be made on-line at www.greenefuneralhome.net Visit our guestbook at www.legacy.com/obituaries/ charleston