Dorothy Hammond

Alabama, departed this life on April 1, 2015. She was born on May 16,

1922 in Leoma, Tennessee. She was the youngest of fifteen children born to

John Wesley Freeman Stephenson and Naomi Louisa Land Stephenson. She

married Robert Elgar Hammond in 1940 and moved with him to Decatur,

Alabama, where she was a homemaker and mother of three children. She

was an active member of Ninth Street United Methodist Church for most of

her life, attending the Spring Avenue Church of the Nazerene during her

later years. She enjoyed the Christian fellowship and love from members of

both congregations.

She was preceded in death by her loving husband, her parents and fourteen

siblings. She is survived by her three children: Robert Thomas Hammond

(Carol), Stephen V. Hammond (Shirley) and Vickie Hammond Rowden

(Frank) and by five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and two greatgreat-

grandchildren.

The funeral service will be Easter Sunday at Roselawn Funeral Home,

beginning at 3:00 p.m. Visitation will be from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the

funeral home chapel. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be

made to Hospice of the Valley, P.O. Box 2745, Decatur, Alabama 35602 in

Mrs. Hammond’s memory.