Palestine High School Alumni Association

Palestine High School Alumni Association, Palestine, Texas

Robert “Bob” Allen Callaway 1957

08 / 23 / 1939  –  08 / 17 / 1997

 


Services for R.A. “Bob” Callaway Jr., 57, of Palestine, TX, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Chapel of the Air at Land of Memory Cemetery with Dr. Bill Newcomb officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Herrington/Land of Memory Funeral Home.Mr. Callaway died Sunday at Memorial Mother Francis Hospital.He was born in Dallas on Aug. 23, 1939, to Robert Allen and Era Ann York Callaway. He was a graduate of Sam Houston State University and lived in Palestine most of his life.

Mr. Callaway was operations manager for Brooks Well Service and a member of First United Methodist Church. He had worked at Knox Glass Plant and Brooks Well Service for the past 23 years. He was also a rancher, and a member of the Texas and Southwest Cattle Raisers Association and the American Quarter Horse Association.

He is survived by his brother, Bill W. Callaway of Palestine; mother-in-law, Edna McCracken of Palestine; and brother-in-law, Pat McCracken of Palestine.

Honorary pallbearers will be Carlton Brooks, Dan Carlisle, Spencer Hassell, Wesley Vickery, Ronnie Darden, Harold Richardson, C.L. Jones and Albert Hassell.

Condolence calls will be received from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at Herrington/Land of Memory Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to the Cowboy Hall of Fame.

(Palestine Herald-Press Aug 18, 1997)