Death: Marshalltown, IA, USA

Obituary:

Rites Set Friday for Verlin Hammer

Services will be held at 9 a.m. Friday at the Fellowship Baptist Church for Verlin B. Hammer, 78, of 811 Washington St., who died there Tuesday evening. The Rev. David Jaspers will officiate and burial will be in the Miller Cemetery at Union.

Born Jan. 7, 1908, in Union, he was the son of Adam and Eliza Rash Hammer, and was educated in the Union school. On Nov. 7, 1929, in Albion, he was married to Fleta Bridges. They have made their home in Marshalltown 30 years, where he was employed by the Chicago Northwestern Railroad. He was a member of the Fellowship Baptist Church.

Preceding him in death were a son, four sisters and a brother. Survivors include his wife, Fleta, four sons and one daughter: Robert and Eugene, both of Claypool, Ariz., Marvin of Perry, Ohio, Stephen of Topeka, Kan., and Beverly Shenkle of Shenandoah. Also surviving are three sisters, Bethel Teske and Luella Peterson of Des Moines, and Harriet Bittner of Eldora; 21 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the Estel-Perrin-Avey Funeral Home through Thursday evening.