 1953 - 2013 (60 years)
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| Name |
Cason Jewell Callaway |
| Suffix |
III |
| Birth |
7 Jun 1953 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
19 Sep 2013 |
West Memphis, Crittenden, Arkansas, USA  |
- Cason Jewell Callaway III: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Ledger-Enquirer (Columbus, GA) - Sunday, September 22, 2013
Deceased Name: Cason Jewell Callaway III
Columbus GA United States
Cason Jewell Callaway, III June 7, 1953- September 19, 2013
Columbus, GA- Cason Jewell Callaway, III, 60, of Columbus, GA, died Thursday, September 19, 2013 in West Memphis Arkansas.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 PM, Tuesday, September 24, 2013 in the chapel of Striffler-Hamby, 4071 Macon Road, Columbus, GA, 31907 with Reverend Mabry Collins officiating.
A private interment will follow.
The family will receive friends Monday evening, September 23, 2013 from 6:00 until 8:00 PM in the Edgewood Room at the funeral home.
Mr. Callaway was born June 7, 1953, son of Nancy Hodges Callaway and the late Cason Jewell Callaway, Jr. He graduated from Blue Ridge School in Virginia and attended Presbyterian College and Columbus State University. He worked with various family businesses through the years. However, the real love of his life after his family and friends was volunteering time to the Canine Search and Rescue and the Volunteer Fire Department. Mr. Callaway worked with the Harris County Sherriff's Department in providing search and rescue dogs through the South Georgia Search Dogs. He also served with the North West Harris Volunteer Fire Department and served two years as the Head of the Council of the Harris County Council of Fire Chiefs. In his capacity with SAR he served four months in Iraq as a civilian contractor with American K-9 assisting the U.S. Army. At the time of his death he was on a new adventure as a driver for PAM Transport of Tontitown, AR.
In addition to his father, Mr. Callaway was preceded in death by his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Cason Jewell Callaway, Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth B. Hodges.
Survivors include his loving wife of 40 years, Elizabeth Smith Callaway of Columbus, GA, three children, Cason Jewell Callaway, IV and his wife Emily of Mercer, TN, Carrie Callaway Roberts and her husband, Joel of Memphis, TN, and Marshall Smith Callaway and his partner, Carlos "Lito" Velasquez of Davis, CA, four grandchildren, Marion Callaway, Lily Callaway, Hana Roberts and Collin Roberts, his mother, Nancy Hodges Callaway, one brother, Kenneth Hodges Callaway, two sisters, Florence Callaway Holmes and Phebe Callaway Robertson, many cousins, nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews, and many close friends. Besides his family he also leaves behind his beloved SAR Dogs, Xunia, Tonks and Jazzy.
In lieu of flowers the family requests that you make a donation the South Georgia Search Dogs in memory of Mr. Callaway which will help continue the work he loved so dearly, c/o Brigitte Basey, 3213 Shenandoah Drive, Phenix City, AL, 36867.
To sign the online guest registry, please visit www.shcolumbus.com.
Copyright (c) 2013 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
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Grandson of Callaway Gardens founders dies on truck-driving trip in Arkansas Cason J. Callaway III also served on fire department in Harris County, trained search dogs: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Ledger-Enquirer (Columbus, GA) - Friday, September 20, 2013
Deceased Name: Grandson of Callaway Gardens founders dies on truck-driving trip in Arkansas Cason J. Callaway III also served on fire department in Harris County, trained search dogs
The grandson of Callaway Gardens founders Virginia and Cason Callaway Sr. has died while on a truck-driving trip to West Memphis, Ark.
Cason Jewell Callaway III passed away in his sleep inside his big rig sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday, his wife, Beth Callaway, said Friday.
"He stopped in West Memphis, Ark., for the night before picking up his next load," she said. "His driving time ran out, so he had to wait, sleep for the night, and then drive the next morning. But he just never woke up."
West Memphis, Ark., is just across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tenn.
Callaway, 60, had been trucking for Tontitown, Ark.-based PAM Transport for about a year. Until recently, he had been a team driver, but his co-driver quit and returned to Atlanta last weekend.
Callaway's wife said he had no major health problems, other than high blood pressure for which he took medication, she said. But doctors had cleared him to drive.
Beth Callaway also said it wasn't out of her husband's nature to do something a little adventurous like drive a truck. He served two decades with the Northwest Harris Volunteer Fire Department in Harris County, she said.
He also worked with South Georgia Canine, which trains dogs for various duties, such as searching for bombs and drugs. Callaway's specialty was working with cadaver and wilderness dogs, his wife said. He had done that since 1997.
"He actually took one of his cadaver dogs and worked as a civilian contractor with the military in Iraq for four months in 2010 and 2011," she said.
"He's just always been one for helping out in the community," said Beth Callaway. "That's been his thing, with the fire department and the search dogs and everything like that."
Callaway is the son of the late Cason Jewell Callaway Jr., one of three children born to the founders of Callaway Gardens, a nature preserve attraction launched in 1952 in the Harris County town of Pine Mountain, just north of Columbus.
Callaway III is the nephew of Howard "Bo" Callaway, who ran the gardens for several years and is a former U.S. representative and secretary of the Army. He also is the cousin of Edward Callaway, the current chairman and chief executive officer of Callaway Gardens.
Beth Callaway said funeral arrangements have not been finalized for her husband. The couple has been living in Columbus.
Other than his wife of 40 years, Callaway is survived by three children. They are Cason Callaway IV, his wife, Emily, and their children, Marion and Lilly; daughter Carrie Roberts, her husband, Joel, and their children, Collin and Hanna; and son Marshall Callaway, and his partner, Carlos Velasquez.
Survivors also include his mother, Nancy Callaway, and three siblings, Phebe Robertson, Kenneth Callaway and Florence Holmes.
Copyright (c) 2013 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
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| Burial |
Callaway Family Mausoleum, Hamilton, Harris, Georgia, USA [1] |
| Person ID |
I31561 |
tng Genealogy |
| Father |
Cason Jewell Callaway, Jr, b. 17 Jul 1924, LaGrange, Troup, Georgia, USA d. 20 Mar 2011, Hamilton, Harris, Georgia, USA (Age 86 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Living |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Family ID |
F10974 |
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