Julia Shingle Hammond June 25, 1922 - February 5, 2011

Julia Shingle Hammond, born on June 25, 1922 to parents Mary Shingle Ludwick and William Harlan Ludwick in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, passed away peacefully in her sleep on February 5, 2011. She was surrounded by her beloved family at home in Sisters, her home of nearly 23 years. She was 88 years of age.

Julia spent the first year of her life in the small apartment home of her mother's parents and then in Cornog, Pennsylvania, near a stone quarry her father part-owned. She lived from the age of 3 in the family home in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, at the corner of Hunt and Highland Avenue, until she went to college. She spent summers from the age of 5 at the family cottage at Hance's Point on the Chesapeake Bay. Julia attended Downingtown High School and Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, where she majored in physical education and was a star player on the field hockey team.

Julia met Earl Horton Hammond of Fremont, Nebraska, in the summer of 1940 in Sequoia National Park. Her mother's cousin was the general manager of the Giant Forest Lodge where she worked as a waitress on "Snob Hill," and Hort worked as a porter in Camp Kaweah. They were married on June 30, 1944 in Media Presbyterian Church in Media, Pennsylvania, and were married for 62 years until Hort passed away in March 2006. Julia and Hort, after Hort's Navy years and graduating from Cal Berkley, made their home in Long Beach, California, and Sisters.

She taught physical education and was a junior high school counselor in the Long Beach Unified School District for 22 years. She retired and spent the rest of her life playing golf with friends - her passion, hiking, swimming and cross country skiing, volunteering for Habitat for Humanity, teaching Sunday school at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church and volunteering at the food bank as a member of Kiwanis. She loved the game of bridge and books, and enjoyed both with very close friends.

Julia is survived by her children Mary Hammond, Nancy Jessup-Blenkush and son-in-law John, Barbara Hammond-Wagner and son-in-law David and Bill Hammond, 13 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, Lynnann Salisbury and her two children Kelsey and Jacob, Matthew and Kelli Chesnut and their two children Mackenzie and Zachary, Amber Newman, Jewel Newman, Michael Jessup, Shawn Jessup, Hana Wagner, Nicholas Donaldson, Ashley and David Humphrey, Chelsea Hammond and Jesse Hammond.

Her unconditional love and abiding faith will be her everlasting legacy.

Her life will be remembered at a memorial service to be held on Friday, February 11, at 11 a.m. at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 386 N. Fir St. in Sisters. For information e-mail [email protected]

ofthehillslutheranchurch.com or call 541-549-5831.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be sent to Julia's charities or that time be volunteered:

• Sisters Habitat for Humanity, P.O. Box 238, Sisters, OR 97759, 541-549-1193. You can make a donation online at http://www.sisters

habitat.org/donations.htm.

• Sisters Oregon Kiwanis, P.O. Box 1296, Sisters, OR 97759; [email protected]

• Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 386 N. Fir St., Sisters, OR 97759; [email protected]

hillslutheranchurch.com; 541-549-5831.

Information provided by the family of Julia Hammond.