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Submitted: 3/17/23 • Approved: 3/18/23 • Last Updated: 3/21/23 • R1476979-G1476979-S3
August 23, 1940 - August 1, 2021
Sarah Cecile Sanders Hammons, 80, of Madison, Alabama passed away on Sunday, August 1, 2021 in Madison, Alabama.
Cecile was born August 23, 1940 in El Dorado, Arkansas. She graduated from El Dorado High School in 1958. She was married to her high school sweetheart, Thomas, for 48 years. Cecile was a United States Air Force wife from 1962 – 1982 supporting her husband and children as they lived across the country and in Okinawa, Japan. She spent the next 18 years in Alamogordo, New Mexico where her husband worked as a civilian test pilot at White Sands Missile Range. Cecile was a devoted wife, mother and member of her community. She and her husband retired to El Dorado in 2001.
Cecile is preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Monroe Hammons; sons, Thomas Christopher Hammons and Ryan Allen Hammons; father, Armand Cecil Sanders; mother, Nancy Frazier Sanders; brother, Chenier Johnny “John” Sanders and sister-in-law, Elizabeth S. Sanders.
Cecile is survived by her son, Jason Monroe Hammons and his wife Amy Ryan of Albuquerque, New Mexico; daughter Sarah Hammons Sledge and her husband George Searcy Sledge of Madison, Alabama; granddaughter, Sarah Searcy Sledge and her husband Andrew Reid Becker of Birmingham, Alabama; grandson, Raney Alexander Sledge of Roanoke, Virginia; great-grandson John Monroe Becker; nephew, Michael Chenier Sanders and his wife Angela Gore Sanders of Missouri City, Texas; nephew, John Coleman Sanders and his wife Laura Jacobs Sanders of Timnath, Colorado; grand-niece and grand-nephews, Jackson Lee Sanders, Harrison Chenier Sanders, Greyson Gore Sanders, Lena Forsty Sanders and Jake Glarner Sanders.
A private graveside service will be held under the direction of Young's Funeral Directors with the Rev. Robert Wetherington officiating.
Contributed on 3/17/23 by debbraszymanski
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