Funeral Services for Mrs. Effie Hammons will be 10:30 a.m. on Monday, August 6, 2012 at Riverwood Family Funeral Service. Visitation will be Sunday, August 5, from 5 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home with interment at Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery.

     Effie Hammons, of the Hilltop Community in Brookhaven, was called home on August 1, 2012. Mrs. Hammons was born in Hayti, Mo. on January 10, 1932. She moved to Illinois at a young age and there she met the love of her life, Robert “Teak” Hammons who just was discharged out of World War II.

     They immediately fell in love and married. They raised five children and had a stillborn baby girl. Mrs. Hammons was a fine homemaker and an avid gardener. She worked in her younger years as a meat packer for Swift and Company, but retired from the MS Dept. of Corrections where she worked as a dental assistant at Oakley Training School. Her greatest achievement was her five children whom she loved dearly. Later in life it was her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was a member of Macedonia Baptist Church.

     She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert “Teak” Hammons Sr.; her baby girl, Esther and daughter, Virginia “Ginny” Bailey.

     She is survived by daughters, Sherry Kratz of Alabama, Nancy Carpenter of Brookhaven, Patricia Rushing of Illinois, and her son, Robert Hammons Jr. of Vicksburg; her Grandchildren, Ashley Fauver, Patricia Chavis of Brookhaven, Melody Harper of Louisiana, Ronnie Serring of Illinois, Jeremy Seering of Washington, Lance Bailey, Bernie Bailey of Las Vegas, Danny Bailey of Illinois, Leslie Keller of Illinois, Ginny Brown, Peggy Kratz of Alabama, and B.J. Kratz of Illinois; and 16 great-grandchildren and a soon-to-be great-great-grandchild. She is also survived by three nieces, Jackie, Cindy and Cathy.

     Her family would like to thank Hospice Compassus for their compassion and care, and Dr. Stewart and Dr. Carner for their expertise and care of our loving mother.

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