EDIE HAMMERS

LAMAR- Services will be held at 12 noon Wednesday at Konantz Warden Funeral Home for Edith Effie “Edie Harless” Hammers, 88, Lamar, who died at 3:30 a.m. Saturday, March 16, 2019, at Truman Healthcare, with her son Clayton by her side. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, at the funeral home.

The family has suggested that memorial gifts be given to the Glad Tidings Assembly of God, located at 1220 N. Main St., Greenfield, MO 65661.

Online condolences may be left at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include her son Clayton Warren Harless, Boise, Idaho; a grandson, Logan Jay Harless, Boise, Idaho and three sisters, Esther Cable, Lamar, Bessie Oliso, Golden City and Beulamae Smith, Cabot, Ark.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Albert Wright and Delbert Wright and two sisters, Eunice Gann and Mildred Baughman.

Mrs. Hammers was born Jan. 18, 1931, in Burwell, Neb., to Ray A. and Lillie (Shane) Wright. She was one of eight children. She was five years old when she moved to Missouri, where she lived most of her life. She married Floyd Harless in 1949 and he died in 1967. They had one son, Clayton Harless, who was born in 1962. She worked hard to support her son through the years.

She worked at the Tension Envelope Factory in Kansas City and eventually moved to Lamar. In Lamar, she worked at O’Sullivan Industries, ran a boarding home for elderly ladies and eventually ran a day care in Lamar for 20 years. She loved babies and had great pleasure in raising them.

During her stay in Lamar she was a member of the Lamar Assembly of God Church. In 1985 she met and married Leonard Hammers in Lamar. They moved to Monett and lived there for 10 years and were members of the Monett Assembly of God Church. In 2002, they moved to Golden City where they were members of the Golden City Assembly of God Church. He died in 2002 and she remained in Golden City. She later became a member of the Greenfield Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church.

She was known as a loving lady and a good mother. She loved everyone and, as a good Christian, loved Jesus with all her heart.