Margie Tippit Tippit Hammond

A Celebration of the Life of Margie Kathleen Hammond will be held on Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 2 pm at the Tenkiller Area Community Organization (TACO) in Cookson, OK. Online memories and remembrances can be left at www.reedculver.com for the family.

Margie Kathleen Tippit Hammond was born on September 5th, 1927 in Nashville, TN, the daughter of Flake Woody and Jessie Kirkman (Shriver) Tippit. The family later relocated to Oklahoma. She attended University of Oklahoma and was a proud member of Kappa Alpha Theta. Following WWII, she would meet and marry Bud Hammond. Together, they raised a family of three sons, Rusty Hammond, Peter Hammond and Brook Hammond. They lived in Colorado, Montana, Texas, and then settled in Tulsa. The Hammond home was known for being immaculate with a showcase landscape. Margie was always on the move with one project after another. After raising her boys, she went back to earn her degree in nutrition with a Masters in Public Health, working in several hospitals in the northeastern corner of Oklahoma as a Registered Dietician. Margie was an avid bridge player and she often hosted gatherings of family and friends.

When her husband Bud retired as a lease broker in the oil and gas industry, they traveled the world, from Europe to Jamaica, from Australia to Alaska! They fell in love with Lake Tenkiller where they eventually retired. Margie was always in the thick of the community, her servant heart driving her to work where she could to make things better for everyone in her neighborhood, church, and with TACO. For many years, she was the popcorn and snowcone lady at the at the annual Cookson Jubilee. She was sweet and friendly, a true people person. Margie was an active member of the Cookson United Methodist Church, and she had a hug for each and every person she greeted on Sundays. She was devoted to her grandchildren, and they to her. She loved keeping up with their latest activities. After Bud passed in 2005, Margie kept up the pace until her health failed her. She passed from this life on Saturday, March 19th, 2016 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 88. She will be greatly missed, but remembered as the lady that knew how to enjoy life.

She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Bud Hammond, her sister, Betty Jean Acton, and her in-laws, Leigh and Mayme (Holt) Hammond.

Those left to celebrate her memory include her sons and their families, Rusty Hammond and wife Linda of Cookson, OK, Peter Hammond and wife Jacquelyn of Cookson, OK, and Brook Hammond and wife Sheri of Granbury, TX. Her love of life lives on in her eight grandchildren, Katherine, Eugenia, Kristin, Brook Jr., Makayla, Connor, Alexandra, and Lessah, and her four great grandchildren with two on the way, as well as many friends and a host of loved ones too numerous to mention.