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Don E. Callaway, 71 of Celeste died the morning of Aug. 31, 2009 at Rockwall Nursing Home. Funeral services will be at 10:00 AM Thursday in the Coker-Mathews Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Ronnie Hickey officiating. Burial will follow in Memoryland Memorial Park.
Visitation is from 6 to 8 PM Wednesday at the funeral home.
Born July 21, 1938 in Hunt County, he was the son of Albert Burton and Barbara Duncan Callaway. On Dec. 11, 1987, he married Bobbie Dean Craver in Hunt County. Mr. Callaway had worked in the Circulation Department of the Herald-Banner in Greenville. He was a member of Kingston Baptist Church.
Surviving are two daughters, Linda Harrison and husband Gregory, Sr. and Ann Sudderth all of Commerce; Stepsons Richard "Buddy" Mitchell and wife Sharon of Greenville and David Mitchell and wife Ann of Celeste; stepdaughter Debbie Sills and husband John of Kingston; grandchildren Shelley Sudderth, Melanie Sudderth, Adam Norris, Sheena Taylor and Greg Harrison, Jr. all of Commerce, Stephanie Grant of Fort Rucker, Ala., and Katherine Tatman of Gun Barrel City; 11 great-grandchildren; and numerous stepgrandchildren and step-great-grandchildren.
Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife; a daughter Cathy Ray; brother Kenneth Callaway; sister Joan Alexander; and son-in-law Phil Sudderth.
Pallbearers will be grandsons, nephews, and friends from church.