Carl S Callaghan

CALLAGHAN WEBER MCCLARAN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/9/2010 at 23:24:57

Sioux City Journal
13 December 1997

Smithland, Iowa—Carl S. Callaghan, 92, of Smithland died Thursday, December 11, 1997, at a Sioux City Hospital.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at United Methodist Church in Smithland, with the Rev. Karen Handke officiating. Burial will be in Little Sioux Township Cemetery in Smithland. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, with a prayer service at 6:30 p.m. and a Masonic service at 7 p.m. at the church. The Willman Funeral Home of Rodney, Iowa, is handling arrangements.

Mr. Callaghan was born August 18, 1905, at home near Oto, Iowa, the son of Charles and Elizabeth (Weber) Callaghan. He graduated from Smithland High School in 1924.

He married Virginia McClaran in 1928, in Nebraska. He farmed in the Smithland area before retiring in 1966 and moving into Smithland.

He was a member of United Methodist Church, Amicable Lodge 289 A.F. & A.M. at Smithland, Quarry Lodge 404, A.F. & A.M. at Mapleton, Iowa and a 50 year member of Sioux City Consistory.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Fern and her husband, Dick Struble of Sacramento, California and Betty Towne of San Diego, California; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; a great-great grandchild; and qa sister, Minnie Eichhorn of Sioux City.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Earl, and a sister, Jennie Claus.