Class of 1941

1941 Graduation Edition
Perry Daily JournalMalcolm Keith Hamm
Malcolm Keith Hamm

– son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Malcolm Hamm, has been a student of the Perry high school for only three years, having previously attended the Saska and Creston Hills schools and the Webster junior high school and Northeast high school of Oklahoma City.

Malcolm was form February 15, 1923, at Blackwell. He played two years of football earning one letter, before coming here, and was student council representative from his class.

He played bass clarinet in the Northeast high school band. Building model airplanes is his favorite pastime.

He plans to take two years of mechanical training and then enlist in the army air corps after graduation.

Malcolm Keith Hamm

February 15, 1923 – June 4, 1977

Malcolm K. Hamm, 54, a resident of Moriarty, New Mexico, for five years, passed away in a local hospital Saturday evening.

Born in Blackwell, Oklahoma, on February 15, 1923, he was the son of Alfred Malcolm and Bernice Marie Rosa Hamm. Following his graduation from Perry high school, he served from 1941 – 1945 in the armed forces during World war II.

In the fall of 1948 he moved to Kansas City where he attended the Kansas City Art Institute. While a student there he met Zona Swank. They were married October 22, 1949, in Kansas City, Missouri.

The couple made their home in Albuquerque and Moriarty, New Mexico, where Malcolm worked as a technical illustrator for Sandia Laboratories for 26 years.

He was a member of the United Methodist Church of Moriarty.

Survivors include: his wife, Zona Mae Hamm of the family home; a daughter, E-2 Cheryl Anne Hamm, U.S. Army, Fort Gordon, GA; a son, Scott A. Hamm, of the family home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Hamm, Albuquerque, NM; two brothers, Clyde F. Hamm, Tulsa, OK, and W. O. 4 Walter N. Hamm, U.S. Navy, Santee, CA.

Memorial services will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in the Palm Chapel of Strong-Thorne, 1100 Coal SE, Albuquerque, N.M. with Rev. Bryan Peterson, officiating. Interment will be in Santa Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.