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Obituary

Allen Cemetery
Pontotoc County, Oklahoma



© Criswell Funeral Home
Mary Alene (Downs) Callaway
May 21, 1928 - July 20, 2014
© Criswell Funeral Home
Submitted by: Tammy Chada


Graveside service for Mary Alene (Downs) Callaway, 86, of Allen, are 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Allen Cemetery with Rev. Chad Kaminski officiating. Family and friends may call at the Criswell Chapel in Allen from 4:00 p.m. Wednesday until service time.

Mrs. Callaway died Sunday, July 20, 2014 at a local hospital. She was born May 21, 1928 in Wewoka, Oklahoma to William J. Downs and Ethel Johnson Downs. She graduated from Central High School in Oklahoma City in 1947.

She married Billy Gene Callaway in 1949 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She worked for Coca-Cola Bottling Company, T G & Y, and First National Bank in Oklahoma City. Bill and Alene owned and operated the Callaway Food Center in Allen from 1970 until 1979. She was active in her local Baptist church throughout her life. She and her husband were charter members of Sunnylane Baptist Church, Del City, Oklahoma. Mrs. Callaway was also a longtime member/Sunday school teacher at Allen First Baptist Church.

Survivors include a son, Randy Callaway and wife Lynda of Ada; granddaughters, Janna Smith and husband Ivan of Ada, Stephanie Callaway of Corinth, Texas, Rebecca Carlin and husband Josh of Ada and Rachel Haley and husband Abe of Lafayette, Louisiana; great-granddaughter and great-grandson, Lincoln and Corbin Smith of Ada.

She was preceded in death by a son, Kyle (1977); her husband Bill (1987); two brothers, Jack Downs and Joe Downs and a sister, Jean Robinson.

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Criswell Funeral Home, Ada


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