Roy Lee Hamm

Roy Lee “Ham-Bone” Hamm, died Sunday, January 30, 2022. Born in Beaumont on February 1, 1947, Bone was the second of four children born to Emma Elizabeth Brockman Hamm and Curley Duson Hamm.

After graduating from South Park High School in 1965, Bone continued his education at Lamar State College of Technology (currently Lamar University), graduating in 1969. Bone began working at Bethlehem Steel during the summers while attending classes and continued working there for many years as a shipbuilding draftsman and layout specialist. His first true love was the outdoors, where he could be found most of the time, hunting, fishing, or just sitting under the trees “shooting the bull” with friends and family.

Having spent much of his youth on Hillebrandt and Taylor Bayous, when Texas opened a hunting season for alligators, Bone applied for and received a license, and subsequently spent several seasons hunting gators, which led to some tremendous “fish stories.”

If Bone caught it or killed it, he cooked it, and he loved to feed people. Feeding people was one of the many ways he loved people. Bone was a strong man, who would stand up to defend those he felt needed to be defended. He was a forgiving man, who didn’t judge, and who always tried to help others, even if they had messed up. He was a kind and gentle man, who would regularly check in on family and friends. He was a man with a sentimental heart, who would say, “Love you” before he ended a telephone call, and never ended a visit without a hug and saying, “Love you.”

Each year before posting his calendar for the new year on the wall beside his desk, he carefully copied the names of family and friends onto their respective birthdates, so that he was sure to never miss a birthday. Those birthday calls will be missed more than the “fish tales” and the crawfish pie.

Bone was preceded in death by his parents, Curley Hamm and Emma Hamm. He is survived by his son, Brian Hamm and wife, Shawna, of Baytown, and grandsons, Brandon Hamm and wife, Erin, of Dallas, Hunter Hamm of Baytown, and Cody Hamm and wife Taylor of Magnolia; sister, Patricia Carpenter and her husband, Jim of Beaumont; brothers, Donald Hamm and his wife, Ann, of Charleston, WV, and Hoyt Hamm and his fiancé, Leanne Stephens, of Silsbee.

“Uncle Cook” will also be greatly missed by his nieces, Rebecca Watson and husband, Jason, of Walton, KY, Elizabeth Drewett and husband, Randy, of Beaumont, Melissa Hamm and husband, Michael Lilley, of Austin, and Renee Soileau of Denton, and nephews, Jeff Hamm and wife Kristine West, of Nashville, TN, Tom Hamm and wife, Leslie Williamson, of Charleston, WV, and Chad Creagh and wife, Tiffany, of Houston, as well as two great grandchildren, too many great nieces, great nephews, cousins, other family, and friends, who were family to him, to list.

A gathering of friends and family will begin at 1:00 p.m. with a memorial service to follow at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 5, 2022, at Church on the Rock North, 8060 Eastex Freeway, Beaumont. The service will be livestreamed on the church’s YouTube channel and on Facebook Live. Those who would like to watch the livestream can find it by searching, “Church on the Rock North” on their preferred platform. Cremation arrangements were handled under the direction of Broussard’s Crematorium through Broussard’s, 2000 McFaddin Avenue, Beaumont.