Wahkiakum County Eagle-Thursday, January 17, 2008 Cathlamet, Wahkiakum County, Washington Constance E. Harlow Hammett Constance Elizabeth Harlow Hammett was born a fisher-man’s daughter on a houseboat on Jim Crow Creek, in Brookfield, Washington to John Conrad Harlow and Maria Theresa Konz Harlow on June 13, 1916. She began her schooling in a one room school in the fishing cannery village of Brookfield and was quickly promoted to the 3rd grade. She completed 3rd through 8th grades, before attending Wahkiakum High School in Cathlamet 1929 – 1931, and then receiving her diploma from Lincoln High School in Tacoma, WA. She entered University of Washington where she studied public speaking and psychology while working summers as an intern at Western State Hospital, in Fort Steilacoom, WA. She was a member of Pi Kappa Delta, a national forensic honorary. She joined the U.S. Navy on August 6, 1944, as one of the first WAVES in our nation’s history, and she served as a bookkeeper (SKG2) stationed in Washington, D.C. Shortly after the war, Constance married Ellis T. Hammett, on March 1, 1946. Constance completed her B.S. degree in Education with expertise in History and Social Sciences 7-12 at University of Oklahoma. She completed coursework for a Masters in Public Administration at UNLV and she was active in the Women’s Auxiliary of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (WAAIME) in the 1970s. During the 1980s Constance was elected to the Ravenswood School Board and the Menlo Park Housing Commission in Menlo Park, CA. and was active in the American Association of University Women (AAUW). She died at her home in Reno, Nev on January 5th, 2008 with her husband and two children present. She is survived by Ellis Theodore Hammett (her husband for 61 years), her son Ted Harlow Hammett and her daughter Julia Elizabeth Hammett Raven. She was preceded in death by her parents and her sisters Katherine Harlow Ytredal and Jeanerette Harlow. Arrangements are pending. (As compiled by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society in 2008.)