DeAnn 'Dee' Hamilton

DeAnn “Dee” Joy Hamilton, 42, advertising manager of the Buffalo Reflex, died of cancer Sept. 30, 1994, in her home in Buffalo.

A native of South Dakota, Mrs. Hamilton attended Baptist Bible College and Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield. She and her husband, Jim, went to work for the Reflex in 1978.

Mrs. Hamilton was a past president of the Missouri Advertising Managers’ Association. The Hamiltons in 1991 were jointly awarded the Buffalo Area Chamber of Commerce Community Service award.

Mrs. Hamilton was assistant coach of a girls basketball team that competed for the AAU-Junior Olympics national title in Yakima, Wash.

She is survived by her husband, a daughter, her mother, three brothers and two sisters.