Henrietta Callaway

Funeral services for Henrietta Sisk Callaway, 80, of Sunset Drive, Washington, were held Saturday, September 15, 2007, at the First Baptist Church, Washington, with Rev. Chris Townsend officiating. Interment was in the Callaway Family Cemetery at Rayle. She died Thursday, September 13.

Mrs. Callaway was born April 25, 1927, in Greensboro, and was the daughter of the late Meva Edgar Sisk and Eloise Smith Sisk. She was the widow of Robert Eugene Callaway of Washington. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Washington where she had served as a Sunday School teacher for many years and as a leader in the jail ministry of the church and in the ministry to shut-ins.

Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Edgar Turner Callaway and Dorothy Chandler Callaway; two daughters and sons-in-law, Laura Callaway Hart and Edward Garner Hart of Columbia, S.C., and Katherine Callaway Patterson and Dr. Steven Griffin Patterson of Orangeburg, S.C.; four grandchildren, Russell Callaway Hart, Katherine Callaway Hart, Laura Callaway (Cally) Patterson, and Anne Griffin Patterson; three stepgrandchildren, James E. Blackwell, David A. Blackwell, and Matthew C. Blackwell; and two step-greatgrandchildren, Andrew Blackwell, and Brittany Blackwell.

Pallbearers included Smythe Newsome, C.H. Randall Jr., Jim Reynolds, Lawrence Burton, Jim Burton, Allen Burton, Brian Baldwin, and Dr. Charles Wills Jr.

Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 603, Washington 30673; or the Callaway Cemetery Inc.

Hopkins Funeral Home of Washington was in charge of arrangements.
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