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Lola Calfee | Visitation:
Friday, January 16, 2009
1:00 PM until 2:00 PM
Kirsch Funeral Chapel
405 W. Thomas Ave.
P.O. Box 277
Shenandoah, IA 51601
Service:
Friday, January 16, 2009
2:00 PM
Kirsch Funeral Chapel
405 W. Thomas Ave.
P.O. Box 277
Shenandoah, IA 51601
Special Services:
Burial will be in the Oakhill Cemetery at Clearmont, Missouri
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| | | Lola Fern Calfee was born December 10, 1918 in Maryville, Missouri, the daughter of Dee and Rebecca (Golay) Callahan. She passed away on Monday morning, January 12, 2009 at Gardenview Care Center in Shenandoah, Iowa at the age of 90 years, 1 month and 2 days.
Lola attended several rural schools in Nodaway County and graduated Pickering High School with the class of 1935. Lola married Jimmy Booth in 1943. They lived on a farm near Clearmont, Missouri. While there, she milked several cows by hand and raised a garden, sheep and chickens. They later divorced.
Lola moved to Shenandoah in 1958 to be near her sister, Mable. Lola cleaned houses and did ironing and mending for several prominent families until she was no longer able to work. Lola was married to Art Calfee, Sr. on February 12, 1977 by Rev. Edith Sterling in Shenandoah.
She used to love to play the guitar and sing. She also loved to read, watch TV and work in the yard. For several years she had a German Shepherd named ‘Tiki’. She was also a member of the First Christian Church in Shenandoah. Lola didn’t have children of her own but claimed her nieces and nephews as her own. Many other people called her ‘Aunt Lo’.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Art Calfee, Sr., sisters, Mable Hart and Bula Koger; brother, Frank Callahan; nieces, Linda Koger and Dona Brownfield; and a great niece, Heidi Keihani.
Survivors include her nieces and nephews, Ruthie Owens and her husband Wayne of Hopkins, Missouri, Ronnie Koger of Shenandoah, Iowa, Gayle Smalling and her husband Dennis of St. Louis, Missouri, Sue Karr and her husband Gene of Herculaneum, Missouri, Mike Callahan and his wife Jan of Batavia, Illinois; a sister-in-law, Laverne Callahan of Festus, Missouri; 10 great nephews; 5 great nieces; along with many other relatives and friends.
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