[List] Obituary: Carl Hammond

[Cecil Stokes]

  Mr. Carl Max Hammond, Sr.

Posted by: SorrellsGeneva
Date: Nov 29 2011 4:34 PM (not found until 2021)


      Obituary: Carl Hammond


Mr. Carl Max Hammond, Sr. of Geneva, Alabama passed away Sunday, 
November 27, 2011.He was 79.


Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m. Friday, December 2, in the chapel of 
Sorrells Funeral Home in Geneva with Rev. Sam Williams and Dr. Randall 
Lolley officiating.The family will receive friends at the funeral home 
on Friday beginning at 1:00 p.m. and continue until service time.Burial 
will follow in the Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery with Sorrells 
Funeral Home of Geneva directing.

The family asked that flowers be omitted and memorial contributions be 
made to Westside United Methodist Church Building Fund or your favorite 
charity.


Mr. Hammond was born July 31, 1932 in Geneva County, Alabama to the late 
Luther and Louise McDougald Hammond.After he retired from 
*Morton-Thiokol* as a contractor negotiator, he along with his wife, 
Sue, returned to Geneva at which time they opened and operated Hammond 
Furniture Company for fifteen years.He loved to “tinker” with 
automobiles.As a youth, Mr. Hammond became a member of Westside United 
Methodist and remained a devoted member until his death.


His son, Carl Max Hammond, Jr., preceded him in death.


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Another remembrance:
https://www.wtvy.com/video/2021/09/10/remembering-carl-max-hammond/

On 9/11/2021 9:06 AM, Cecil Stokes wrote:
>
> Remembering all losses on 9/11/01 but particularly remembering a 
> member of the TC HD family: Dr. Carl Max Hammond, son of Carl Hammond 
> (TC#4277) who had served the Huntsville Division as Manager of Contracts.
>
>
>   Carl Max Hammond
>
> Carl Max Hammond
> United Flight 175 
> <http://www.legacy.com/sept11/SearchResult.aspx?location=UA175>
>
>
>     Used-Car Tinkerer
>
> Carl Hammond and Carl Max Hammond Jr. had some of their best 
> father-son talks while tinkering with the innards of a Mustang.
>
> "I bought one used back in '67," said the elder Mr. Hammond. It needed 
> parts, so I bought another — which needed parts. I bought another and 
> another and another."
>
> Max, who was 12, liked to tinker, too. "It wasn't long," said his 
> father, "before he was the leader and I was the follower."
>
> Max Hammond was also a leader in other ways. In seventh grade, he got 
> into trouble for contradicting his teacher.
>
> "She said a supernova was the birth of a star," Mr. Hammond recalled. 
> "He said it was the death of a star. He wouldn't back off his 
> position. He accused the teacher of getting her science from Reader's 
> Digest. He got his from Scientific American."
>
> Max earned a doctorate in physics and got a job doing top-secret 
> research. But he still preferred talking about books or cars. "He 
> wrote poetry," his father said. "He loved working with his hands." He 
> was taking a welding course and learning to weld and form aluminum and 
> thin metal."
>
> Less than a year before boarding Flight 175, Max Hammond, who was 37, 
> moved to Derry, N.H. He bought a little house with a big garage for 
> the Mustangs. "The '65 Mustang fastback — a shell of a body — was 
> first on the list," Mr. Hammond said. "Next was the Mustang 
> convertible. He liked to learn about them and tinker with them. But he 
> never did finish one."
>
> Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on April 28, 2002.
>
>
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