Margaret Callaway

Margaret Callaway, 94, longtime Whitten resident, died Friday evening, July 30th, at the Eldora Nursing and Rehab Center. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 4th, at the Whitten Community Church with Pastor Jim Hartman officiating. She will be laid to rest in the Benson Cemetery at Whitten. Visitation will be held from 6-8:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Mitchell Family Funeral Home in Marshalltown. A memorial fund is being established. For condolences, please visit www.mitchellfh.com. The Mitchell Family Funeral Home is caring for Margaret and her family. Ph 641-844-1234. Born Margaret Eggleston on January 24th, 1916, at Whitten, she was the daughter of Harry B. and Eliza (Collins) Eggleston. She graduated from the Whitten High School in 1933. In school, she loved to play basketball. On October 6th, 1935, she was united in marriage to Carl Callaway at her parents home in Herman, Minnesota. They made their homes in Grundy and Hardin County most of their lives except for Camdenton, MO from 1947 to 1952. Whitten was home to her where she was a member of the Whitten Community Church, the Benson Cemetery Society and the Whitten Womens Fellowship. Margaret will be fondly remembered for her love of family, making dolls (she made dolls for the entire Union-Whitten 1968 Girls Basketball team winning the State title), authored several Whitten As I Remember It articles and was the family historian and matriarch. Left to cherish her memory are her children: Larry (Shary) Callaway of Conrad, Charles Harry (Sandra) Callaway of Grundy Center and Garnet Jeanne (Chuck) Van Patter of Wilmington, IL., seven grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandson and her siblings: Avis Dawson of Kansas City, Doris Durfey of Chatfield, MN and Lawrence Richard Dick Eggleston of Golden Valley, MN as well as several nieces, nephews and a host of friends. In death, Margaret rejoined her beloved Carl, a great-granddaughter, sisters Helen Bavendar and Harriett Eggleston in childhood, her parents.