May 22, 2020 (Friday)
My son-in-law, Rick Hamm, died last Sunday, May 17, 2020, at his home in Conroe, Texas, at the age of 64. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio June 26, 1955.
We are having a brief online Memorial service for him this morning. I will be speaking from my home to his family and others who may be listening in, via the internet, an arrangement made possible by my son, Dwight. The video can be viewed on a Memorial Day blog:
http://charlesfake.com/index.php/2020/05/25/_o_beautiful_for_spacious/
Rick and Debbie were married in the First Baptist Church of Rockport on August 18, 1983. They are survived by their three sons Andy (Arianna), Alex (Sarah), and Austin. Andy and Arianna have recently moved to Arkansas. Alex and Sarah, and Austin, live in Houston.
Rick is preceded in death by his wife, Debbie, in 1997, his father, Arnold, in 2006, and his brother, Dale, in 2016.
He is survived by his three sons and their wives, his mother, Elsie Hamm, his sister Barbara Rochefort (David), and his nephew, Ryan Rochefort, all of San Antonio.
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Rick Hamm:
1. Kind
2. Gentle
3. Loved his wife and children and all his family.
4. Intelligent (able to think in abstract terms)
5. Gifted in building skills
6. Gifted in arts and crafts
7. Able to repair just about anything
8. Worked for two degrees after marriage:
(1) Del Mar College
(2) Texas A & I, Kingsville
9. Praised for his work with Brown and Root. Designer
and manager for transport of giant oil rigs.
10. Praised for his work with Houston Natural Gas.
Was an engineer for the company and also taught a
class in welding skills.
11. A child of God. He accepted Christ and was baptized at the First Baptist Church of Rockport before marriage. He was always by Debbie’s side at their church, every Sunday. For a while, they taught a class together.
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Rev. W. A. Fletcher 1911 Tempted and tried we’re oft’ made to wonder Why it should be thus all the day long While there are others living about us Never molested, though in the wrong Farther along we’ll know more about it Farther along we’ll understand why Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine We’ll understand it all by and by When death has come and taken our loved ones Leaving our homes so lonely and drear Then do we wonder how others prosper Living so wicked year after year Farther along we’ll know more about it Farther along we’ll understand why Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine We’ll understand it all by and by |
John 14:1-6 King James Version (KJV) 14 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 11:20-27 King James Version (KJV) Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house. 21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. 22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. 23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. 24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. 25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? 27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
1 Corinthians 15:50-58 King James Version (KJV) 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.