Ann McCord (Benchoff) Stamm
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Title
Ann McCord (Benchoff) Stamm
Subject
Stamm, Ann McCord Benchoff (1929-2020)
Description
Damaged portrait photograph of Ann McCord (Benchoff) Stamm as a girl.
Ann was the daughter of Guy Anderson and Katharine (Hottel) Benchoff. She and her three siblings grew up in Woodstock. Her parents worked at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) and her uncle was the headmaster there for more than fifty years.
Ann attended Woodstock High School (Class of 1946), and the Massanutten Military Academy (MMA).
She earned a bachelor of arts degree in fine arts in 1951 from Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. At Hood, she was an active member of the Hood Glee Club where she met her husband (a Franklin and Marshall College student and aspiring doctor), Charles F. Stamm. In the early 1950's, after graduating, Ann worked as a purchasing agent for Hutzler's department store in Baltimore, Maryland.
After the couple married in 1955, they were stationed with the Air Force Medical Corps at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage, Alaska, during the Cold War. Next, they moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, before settling in Schenectady, New York.
Ann was extremely active in her Schenectady community.
She and her husband raised four children: Katharine, Martha, Charles, and Jared.
Ann was the daughter of Guy Anderson and Katharine (Hottel) Benchoff. She and her three siblings grew up in Woodstock. Her parents worked at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) and her uncle was the headmaster there for more than fifty years.
Ann attended Woodstock High School (Class of 1946), and the Massanutten Military Academy (MMA).
She earned a bachelor of arts degree in fine arts in 1951 from Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. At Hood, she was an active member of the Hood Glee Club where she met her husband (a Franklin and Marshall College student and aspiring doctor), Charles F. Stamm. In the early 1950's, after graduating, Ann worked as a purchasing agent for Hutzler's department store in Baltimore, Maryland.
After the couple married in 1955, they were stationed with the Air Force Medical Corps at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage, Alaska, during the Cold War. Next, they moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, before settling in Schenectady, New York.
Ann was extremely active in her Schenectady community.
She and her husband raised four children: Katharine, Martha, Charles, and Jared.
Creator
Morrison Studio
Source
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
Undated
Contributor
Identified in 2025 by Katharine Shilling (Stamm) Schindler, the subject's daughter, who confirmed the identification with her brother.
Additional biographical information was extracted from her obituary posted on the Find-A-Grave website.
Rights
IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Relation
Ann McCord (Benchoff) Stamm appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 002779, 004330, 005112, and 012068.
Identifier
005112
Original Format
Glass Negative
Collection
Citationzork
Morrison Studio, “Ann McCord (Benchoff) Stamm,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/35489.
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