Ellen Barrett Hamm, 55, passed away suddenly on October 8, 2008 at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO. She was preceded in death by her father Robert L. Hamm, is survived by her mother, Joan Hamm, Ajijic Mexico, her sisters Rita (Bob) McElhany, Jefferson City, MO and Mary (Neil) Packman, St. Louis, MO, her brother Barry (Martha) Hamm, Stoneham, MA, nieces Anne (Chuck) Freshour, Carolyn (Bobby) Fawcett, Elizabeth Packman, and nephews Thomas McElhany, Jeffrey Hamm, Michael (Miriam) McElhany and Samuel Packman. Ellen was a 1970 graduate of Central Dauphin East High School, Harrisburg; PA, the University of Massachusetts, and received her MBA from Simmons College, Boston.