A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Illinois > Pike http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=615 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=30383 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: Unknown Newspaper (Quincy (Illinois) Herald-Whig? Article Date: August 1990 Article Description: Homer McCallister Obituary Article Text: Homer McCallister Barry, Ill. – Homer McCallister, 81, of Barry, retired from Brown Shoe Co., died at 9:52 p.m. Thursday (Aug. 23, 1990) in Illini Community Hospital, Pittsfield. Born Sept. 15, 1908, in Pike County, Mr. McCallister was a son of Elmer and Elizabeth Howell McCallister. He married Bessie Edna Medaris Feb. 22, 1930, in El Dara. She died Nov. 11, 1987. Survivors include a son, Albert of Barry; three daughters, Mrs. Raymond (Shirley) Hartle of El Dara and Mrs. Clarence (Janet) Trammel and Mrs. Geoffrey (Helen) Nash, both of Quincy; 14 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a sister and four brothers. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today in the Kirgan Funeral Home. Burial will be in Pittsfield West Cemetery. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com