- Date Of Birth: August 3, 2001
- Date Of Death: October 11, 2021
- State: Idaho
Rhoda Caroline (Stead) Hamm, 95, of Grangeville, ID, formerly of Cheyenne, WY, passed peacefully from death into eternal life at home on Sat. Sept. 25, 2021. She was born on Aug, 3 1, 1926 in Eveleth, Minnesota, to Swedish immigrants Alfred and Jennie (Rundquist) Stead
She joined brother Malcolm and sisters Leona and Doris. The family lived in northern
Minnesota for the duration of Rhoda’s childhood. She graduated from Eveleth High School in 1944.
Rhoda was an avid letter writer which began in her late teens when she had several male pen pals. One of these “pals,” was a young man from Warba, Minnesota, John Hamm, who was working on constructing the Al-Can highway. She wrote to him faithfully for about 2 years during which time he had joined the Army Air Corps. After completing flight school, John headed home to Minnesota to meet Rhoda face to face. They were married in Douglas, AZ just 4 months later on June 6, 1945. Little did Rhoda know on that June day in ’45 what a life of travel and adventure awaited her as she and the family would travel the world together following John’s Air Force career. Along the way five children were born to the couple spanning the years of 1946 to 1960.
