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The world lost our beloved mother, Shirley Ann Floyd Hammond, age 85, March 10, 2024 passing away peacefully following a brief illness with heart failure. She is the wife of the late Jimmy Hammond. Mama was born and raised in the Joyner Swamp Community attending Berea Baptist Church and later married our father and resided in the Martin and Roxie Cleo Buffkin Hammond homestead in the Finklea Community where she resided until her death. Mama took her position as the steward of the Hammond homestead with grace and made all efforts to welcome the family with open arms, unwavering devotion, and love. She was a member of Green Sea Baptist Church. She is survived by her two daughters whom she loved deeply, Audrey Hammond Blair of Loris, and Stephanie Hammond Tetterton (Hamilton) of Camden, SC as well as two grandchildren, Sloan Blair Deans (Hackney) of Lake Waccamaw, NC and Summer Leanne Blair of Charleston. Shirley was a graduate of Aynor High School Class of 1957 and went on to earn her Bachelorette degree in Education/Teaching and Home Economics from Limestone College in 1961 and was the first of her family to attend an institute of higher learning. She later earned her Master's Degree in Biology from the University of South Carolina traipsing through swamps and collecting snakes and other fauna and classifying flora while pregnant with me, her second child at 39 years of age…no task was impossible and no goal unachievable. During her teaching career, she taught 2 years in Fort Valley, Georgia prior to marrying Daddy and 2 years in Nakina, NC. She went on teach 30 years in the Horry County School District predominately in Loris High School and Middle School teaching Life and Earth Science. She was well loved by her many students, always making time for jokes and laughter. In addition to teaching, mother was an avid gardener and canner. She always remained a lady with a work ethic that was unmatched. She was the epitome of strength and dignity. She was known for her black and white checked bonnet and heels that she wore while weeding and gathering her vegetables. She loved her family, community, Red Hat sisters, and friends. She also loved Pepsi and chocolate and an occasional dip of Society snuff. She was an awesome cook always making every meal with love and affection. Mama left this earth with the legacy of her beloved namesake "Shirley Hammond Multiplier Onion." Kept in her family for many generations, she took it upon herself to plant the onion year after year preserving its existence as it reminded her of her childhood home and family. In addition to her children and grandchildren, she is survived by her sisters-in-law, and best friends, Ethel Hammond of Pleasant View and Bobbie Faye King of Georgetown and Pat Hammond as well as many dearly loved nieces and nephews. She is predeceased in death by her late husband Jimmy Hammond, her father Richard H. Floyd, Sr and mother, Augusta Johnson Floyd, sister, Retha Floyd Goff, brother R.H. Floyd, Jr. (Barbara Ann) and brother- in-laws Franklin Hammond (Eloise), Elery Hammond (Francis), Houston Hamond, Aaron Hammond (Janie), Martin Hammond, and Joseph Hammond (Betty), and Maxie King and Sister-in-Laws Frankie Jewel Goins (Horace), Peggy Jean Johnson (Lloyd), Darcus Ann Bullard (Honree), and Katheryn Mayers (John C.) The viewing with be held at Goldfinch Funeral Home in Loris, March 13, 2024 from 6-8pm. The funeral services are to be held at Green Sea Baptist Church March 14, 2024 at 3pm with graveside service to follow at Hammond Family Cemetery in Finklea, SC. With heartfelt gratitude, we the family respectfully thank and acknowledge each and every one of you for your visits, calls, prayers, cards, floral arrangement and all other expressions of love and sympathy during our time of bereavement. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband and praises her: 'Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all. 'Proverbs 31:28-29 We love you MAMA! You are the bestest mama in the whole wide world! Memorials may be made to Hammond Family Cemetery, 3251 Fairlane Rd, Loris, SC 29569 or Green Sea Baptist Church, 1241 Green Sea Rd, Green Sea, SC 29545

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Shirley Floyd Hammond

November 10, 1938 - March 10, 2024