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Laura Vernon Hamner (view source)
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==Later years==
==Later years==
During the 1920s, in an effort to encourage other writers, Hamner formed the literary group, Panhandle Pen Women, with a friend Phebe Kerrick Warner (1866-1935). In her later years, at her room in the Herring Hotel in Amarillo, she frequently met with literary agents, publishers, and writers from throughout the world. At one point, she lived briefly on a land claim in [[Oklahoma]]. She adopted a child. She was made an honorary member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. “Laura V. Hamner Week” was frequently observed in Amarillo.<ref name="hbook"/>
During the 1920s, in an effort to encourage other writers, Hamner formed the literary group, Panhandle Pen Women, with a friend Phebe Kerrick Warner (1866-1935). In her later years, at her room in the Herring Hotel in Amarillo, she frequently met with literary agents, publishers, and writers from throughout the world. At one point, she lived briefly on a land claim in [[Oklahoma]]. She was made an honorary member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. “Laura V. Hamner Week” was frequently observed in Amarillo.<ref name="hbook"/>
Hamner died in [[Alabama]] while visiting a relative. A [[Methodist]], she is interred beside her parents at the Goodnight Cemetery in Armstrong near Claude, Texas. Most of her papers are in either the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, or the [[Eugene Barker|Eugene C. Barker]] Texas History Center of the [[University of Texas]] at [[Austin]]. She is included in the University of Texas “Listing of Great Texas Women”.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.utexas.edu/gtw/directory.php?C=H|title=Great Texas Women|publisher=University of Texas|accessdate=December 14, 2019; material may no longer be on-line}}</ref>
Hamner died in [[Alabama]] while visiting a relative. A [[Methodist]], she is interred beside her parents at the Goodnight Cemetery in Armstrong near Claude, Texas. Most of her papers are in either the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, or the [[Eugene Barker|Eugene C. Barker]] Texas History Center of the [[University of Texas]] at [[Austin]]. She is included in the University of Texas “Listing of Great Texas Women”.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.utexas.edu/gtw/directory.php?C=H|title=Great Texas Women|publisher=University of Texas|accessdate=December 14, 2019; material may no longer be on-line}}</ref>