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IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Elizabeth A.
Callaway
December 25, 1917 – May 1, 2009
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FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
Elizabeth A. Callaway Age - 91 12/25/1917 - 5/1/2009 Fairbury, NE - Seward, NE Celebration of Life Informal Celebration of Life 2:00 - 5:00 P.M., Sunday, May 24, 2009 at Liberty House Bed and Breakfast 441 North 5th Street Seward, NE Signing of Remembrance Book 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Thursday, May 21 and Friday, May 22 at Zabka Funeral Home Seward, NE MEMORIALS Memorials for a park bench in the Seward community in lieu of flowers |
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Elizabeth Agness Callaway, artist, writer, photographer, outdoors woman and world traveler, died May 1, 2009 in Seward, Nebraska, at age 91. She was born December 25, 1917 in Fairbury, Nebraska to Charles B. and Elizabeth A. (Henderson) Callaway. She graduated from Fairbury High School in 1935, the University of Nebraska with a B.A. in Fine Arts in 1940, and a M.A. in English in 1994. She had a son from her marriage to Murray Turnbull, a fellow artist from Iowa, and a daughter from her marriage to Stanley H. Anderson, a farmer from Ceresco, Nebraska. In 1957, Elizabeth and her two children moved to the Mojave Desert in California, for a 25 year career as a technical illustrator at the US Naval Ordinance Test Station at China Lake. Her work dealt with aviation ordinance including the Sidewinder air to air missile, Walleye TV guided bomb, and in later years, the HARM air to ground anti-radar missile. Elizabeth loved the American Southwest, its vistas and its art. She read extensively and collected Indian silver. She hiked and skied in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, climbing more than 175 peaks in California, Nevada and Colorado, including Mt. Whitney, the highest in the lower 48 states. Elizabeth was the first woman member of the China Lake Mountain Rescue Group. After her retirement she moved first to Lone Pine, California, then Lincoln, Nebraska. Elizabeth returned often to the mountains, including a hike to the summit of St. Marys Peak with companions in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana when she was 83. Never one to pass up a chance to see more, she packed up her books and rocks and moved back to the Southwest to Cortez, Colorado in 2003. Elizabeth returned to Nebraska to Seward in 2007. She was preceded in death by her parents, and her brothers, Marion and Con Callaway. She is survived by her son John Turnbull, wife Gloria, of York, Nebraska, 4 grandchildren and spouses, Rex and Inga Turnbull, Brice and Tara Turnbull, Clint and Stacie Turnb ull and Tessa and Chris Warnick; 6 great grandchildren, and daughter Virginia Sue Anderson and husband Jimmy Elliott of Buckley, Washington; nieces and nephews. |
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