Georganna Hammett

Georganna Hammett was born December 26, 1932, in Ballinger, Texas and died in Dallas, Texas on January 10, 2024. She was the second of three children born to Helen Lathrop and Walter Elmore Edmiaston.

Walter came to Ballinger, Texas from Arkansas in a covered wagon. He was a printer and song writer, her mother a teacher who taught grades one through twelve in a one-room schoolhouse. For several years she had her own children as students. Mom told the story of being so fascinated when she first saw and used a chalk board that she would not return to her seat. I am afraid she was sent to cut a switch that her mother used on her. We were shocked to learn that as a child our mother lived in a house with a dirt floor. The family raised chickens, had a milk cow and a vegetable garden to feed the family.

She was a 1951 graduate of Capitol Hill High School in Oklahoma City and president of her Ki Yi spirit organization as well as the Math Club. She attended the University of Oklahoma, majoring in Journalism and was a lifetime Sooner fan. She married Dillard Hammett and began many years of moving from city to city as the wife of a Marine who entered the oil business upon being discharged. Every move meant finding a house and unpacking, enrolling children in new schools, making new friends, finding new doctors, sewing draperies for the new house and finding a new church.

Mom was always involved with people and organizations. Here are a few…Blue Birds and Camp Fire Girls, Cub Scouts, 4H, PTA, Petroleum Club Wives, crafting silver jewelry, painting, running a trophy making business, playing bridge, attending house building school, Altar Guild, church Bazaar and so much more. She made friends everywhere she went. Always involved in helping, she thought more of others than herself.

A highlight of her life was the chance to live in Paris. She loved helping family and friends as a tour guide in the city and once she returned to Dallas, she delighted in developing itineraries for others visiting Paris. Her children and family were the joys in her life, and she was called Grandmother by all generations of her family. She was loved by so many and will be missed forever.

Georganna is survived by her sister Zen Ellen Stinchcomb and sister-in-law Anna Floyd. In addition, she is survived by her children, Karen Beth Hammett, Dixie Hammett daughter-in-law, Lee Anne Harvey and husband Alex and Jeffrey Alan Hammett and wife Nicola. Georganna is also survived by grandchildren Carolina Gay and husband Dr. Rob Cunningham, Zachary Jay Hammett and wife Cathrine, Jennifer Lee Beard and husband J.T., Melissa Irene Young and husband Matt, Austin Starr Hammett, Zoe Helen Harvey and husband Trey Lundberg, Henry Robert Harvey and Lilly Starr Harvey. Her great grandchildren are Cooper, Georgia and Ruthie Cunningham, Melody Starr Kolbensvik, Jack and Henry Beard, Ezra Michael Hammett and Bennett Young. Our family is expecting three additional great grandchildren this spring.  She was preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, Dillard Starr Hammett, her second husband, Richard Lee Woods, her first-born son Mark Alan, her second son Michael Starr and her brother David Edmiaston.

A funeral service will be held for at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, January 20, 2024, at Walnut Hill United Methodist Church, 10066 Marsh Lane, Dallas, Texas. There will be a one-hour visitation that will begin prior to the service at 12:30.

Georganna will be laid to rest at a later date at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia with her husband Dillard and son Mark.

If desired, please consider a donation to a charity of your choice in honor of our mom.