Juanita Lenore (Hammer) Ogdon, a resident of the Tarrytowns for more than 50 years, died Friday January 10, 1992 of Alzheimer’s disease at Skyview Haven Nursing Home in Croton-on-Hudson. She was 84.

She was the wife of William D. Ogdon, a retired member of the Editorial Board of the New York Times. Her husband died in June.

Mrs. Ogdon was born July 23, 1907 in Jasper County Illinois to William Clarence & Lola Pickering Hammer. She had her early schooling in Olney, Illinois and St. Louis. She met her future husband while employed in the St. Louis YMCA membership office, where he went daily to play four-wall handball.

They were married January 11, 1932 in the Park Avenue Christian Church in Manhattan by the Rev. Finis J. Idleman.

After a year in New York City and a brief stay in Philipse Manor, the couple spent two years in the Washington D.C. area. Shortly after returning to New York, they moved to what later became Tarrytown’s Grove St. Historical area, where they lived for more than 50 years.

Mrs. Ogdon was a collector of Victorian furniture appropriate to their 1867 house. She was admired for her skill in quilting, rug making and needlepoint, said her son, Thomas H. Ogdon of both New York City and Carmel. Her book reviews for clubs she belonged to were admired for their thoroughness and literary style, her son said. Her favorite pastime was contract bridge.

She was a member of the Second Reformed Church of Tarrytown, the Fortnightly Club, Shakespeare Class, Book Forum and P.E.O., the National Educational Sorority. She was active for many years in the Historical Society of the Tarrytowns.

In addition to her son, she is survived by her daughter, Judith Gardner of Lexington, KY; a sister, Doris Hammer Watson; 5 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

Arrangements are being handled by the Dwyer Funeral Home in Tarrytown. Interment in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

The Reporter Dispatch, White Plains, NY – Monday, January 13, 1992