Marian “Toddie” (Miller) Hamm
December 16, 1924 ~ May 13, 2007
Hamm, Marian “Toddie” (Miller), 82, homemaker, died Sunday, May 13, 2007. Service 2:00 P.M., Saturday, May 19, University Congregational Church. Interment will be in the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Humboldt, KS. Toddie was born in Princeton, NJ on December 16, 1924 along with her identical twin sister, Katharine Wilhoyte. She had an older brother, Robert Allison Miller, who died in 1995. She grew up in Merion Station, PA on the Philadelphia Main Line, graduated from Lower Merion High School and from Wellesley College in 1946. She married James Robert “Bob” Hamm in Ardmore, PA on June 26, 1948. They had four children, Robert, Stephen, Allison and John and seven grandchildren. Survivors are her husband, James Robert Hamm; her sister, Katharine of Newtown Square, PA; her son, Robert and his family of Edmond, OK, her son, Stephen and his family of Pelham, NY, her daughter, Allison and her family of Wichita and her son, John and his family of Boulder, CO. She and husband, Bob, have left a host of good friends in the Philadelphia area, Allen County, KS, Leawood, KS, Pittsburgh, PA, Lake Monticello, VA and for last four years in Larksfield Place in Wichita. Memorial gifts can be made in her name to Wellesley College, 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA, 02481 and University Congregational Church, 9209 E. 29th, Wichita, KS, 67226. Downing Lahey Mortuary East.
Interment will be in the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Humboldt, KS.
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Like I’ve always said, ‘I’ve known Toddie Hamm since I was negative-nine-months-old’. Now I’m 47. These random thoughts go out to Bob, John, Allison, Steve and Rob, from Cyndi Weeks Rosengren and my husband, Dave: What a lady!! What spunk. What a wit. What a sharp mind. And what a caring heart. She was a great role model for me of a well educated woman, from a generation where that wasn’t necessarily the norm. There were lots of great role models in that Westinghouse bunch. I have such fond memories growing up, with Toddie and Bob very much at the heart of those memories. Starting with the duplicate bridge nights at the Weeks house, or just hanging out at your house. Bob, you both were so incredibly helpful when Norm died – I was 13, and you guys couldn’t have been more wonderful to Muriel and our entire family! Then graduating to fun family parties like Muriel’s surprise 65th birthday party at your house (we 5 kids came in town from all over, and did that stupid ‘dance routine’ in your livingroom to appropriate songs we’d picked out for our ‘surprise entrance’!?). Then there was Muriel’s 70th Birthday/retirement party which was great to see Toddie, and all of Muriel’s Murrysville friends again. And then dinner at our house in Baltimore after that Westinghouse luncheon in Philly (where my brother KD stood up his mother….then made up for it later that night when he drove down to join us for dinner, too). Then, most recently, our trips to Williamsburg over the holidays, when Bob & Toddie would sometimes join us (Bob Young, and the Mascias, along with Muriel and Dave & me). What a great set of memories they all are! Toddie was always fun to be around, and I’m so thankful we’ve had chances to keep up our friendship, even after we’ve all moved in every direction. The Hamm’s are very much a part of my life and who I am. I love you very much, Bob, and I’m so sorry to hear that your lovely bride has passed. But what a great person and partner she was, and what a great life to celebrate. Our thoughts and warmest wishes are with you all.
I knew Mrs. Hamm from back when I was in high school. Her husband Bob and my father Boyd worked for the Pittsburgh branches of Westinghouse at the time. Our whole family knew their whole family. We visited them more than occasionally when they lived out in Murrysville, PA. I remember always having a good time. I only now found out about Mrs. Hamm’s passing, thus the 2010 date. My sincere condolences are extended to the Hamm family.
We extend our sincerest condolences on the death of Toddie. We knew her but a short time in relation to her long and fruitful life, but admired her tremendously. We will miss her.