M. Lucille Hammes, 83, of Baileyville, KS, died Monday, April 15, 2002, at Country View Estates care home in Seneca.

She was born November 2, 1918, on a farm northwest of Baileyville, one of six children of Aloysius and Margaret Engelken Hammes. She grew up in Baileyville where her family had moved when she was two months old. She attended Sacred Heart School in Baileyville.

Lucille worked with Cora Horacek as a telephone operator for Southwestern Bell in Baileyville for several years. She was employed as a clerk at the U.S. Post Office in Baileyville for 20 years until her retirement in 1984. She helped care for her mother, and later for her brother, Clarence, in their home at Baileyville where they lived together. After becoming ill on December 25, 2000, she was hospitalized in Topeka and Seneca. In January of 2001, she entered Country View Estates care home.

She was a member of Sacred Heart Church and St. Ann’s Altar Society at the church, and the Pinochle and Pitch Club, all in Baileyville. Her hobbies include crocheting, embroidery and reading.

Survivors include a brother, Elmer Hammes of Seneca.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Maurice, Leonard, and Clarence Hammes; and a sister Kathleen Feldkamp.

Mass of Christian burial will be 11 AM Thursday at Sacred Heart Church in Baileyville. Burial will be in the church cemetery. A rosary will be prayed at 7 PM Wednesday at Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca.

Memorials may be given for Sacred Heart Cemetery or for the Parkinson’s Disease Association, and sent in care of the family.