Ann W. Hammond, a homemaker and longtime board member of the Pickersgill retirement home in Towson, died of undetermined causes Tuesday at Brightwood Nursing Center in Brooklandville. She was 83.

The former Poplar Hill and Ruxton resident was born and raised Ann Randolph Taylor Whiteley in Catonsville. She was a graduate of the Robert Beech School, a private girls' school in Catonsville.

She made her debut at the Bachelors Cotillon and during the 1940s and 1950s worked in the bridal department of Hutzler's department store in downtown Baltimore.

In 1955, she married Frank Lloyd Hammond, a former Mercantile Safe-Deposit and Trust Co. vice president, who died in 1982.

Mrs. Hammond served as a board member of Pickersgill until stepping down in 2000.

She was an avid gardener.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. John's Episcopal Church, 3738 Butler Road in Glyndon.

Mrs. Hammond is survived by her daughter, Ann H. Brooke of Brooklandville; a brother, Gustave T. Whiteley of Annapolis; a sister, Clarita C. Whiteley of Catonsville; a granddaughter; and several nieces.