Personal Life and Death
Hammer was first married to Rosl Rossbach, and together they had two children, Veronika and Jacob. Hammer married Carolyn Reading in 1955.
During his life Hammer was also good friends with Tomas Merton. Hammer hand pressed the first edition of his work The Wisdom of the Desert.
Hammer died in Lexington on July 10, 1967 and is buried in the cemetery of Pisgah Presbyterian Church near Versailles, Kentucky.
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