Biography from Wheeler Mortuary, Portales, NM. as found in Funeral Memorial record book in possession of Cora Stroud Deering.

Callie Ellen Deering was born April 17, 1908, in Maverick, Texas, to the home of Donnie Lauaritha Thaxton Grimes and Harvey Alexander Grimes. She passed from this life on Sunday, January 8, 1995, in Richardson, Texas, at the age of 86 years, 8 months and 22 days.
She taught school for 22 years, teaching in Texas her first year, and in New Mexico after she moved there with her family. Her father homesteaded in DeBaca County and Callie Ellen filed her own homestead close by. She got a teaching job at Kenna, then at Circle Y School at Olive. She briefly taught at Cloudcroft, but returned to Circle Y.
She met John Emery Deeing while teaching at Circle Y and they were married February 12, 1938. They had three children while ranching in the Olive community near Kenna. When her older two girls were of school age, she again began teaching at Circle Y where she continued until it closed in 1951. She decided to get her B.A. Degree in Education after teaching for 17 years, so she enrolled at ENMU where she had had classes when it was a Junior College. She earned both her M.A. and B.A. in Education from Eastern prior to going to Ramah to teach her last five years.
She returned to Portales to live after retiring at Ramah and continued to live here until her death. She was an active member of the Mother Church of the First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts. She had served as First Reader of the Portales Branch for several years. She was also a member of the Elida Order of Eastern Star, serving as Worthy Matron and was also a member of the Kenna Ladies Aid. She enjoyed reading and keeping up with current events in the world and the communities where she had lived.
She was preceded in death by her husband, in May of 1980; her parents;2 sisters, Edna Jones and Frances Whittenburg; and 3 brothers, Harvey Clinton, Herman A. and John Thomas Grimes.
She is survived by 3 daughters and 2 sons-in-law, Donnie and David Cresap of Clovis, Cora and Johnny Stroud of Portales, and Linda Brown of Garland, Texas; by 7 grandchildren, Faron and Kelli Stroud, and Debbie Green all of Portales, Bryan Stroud of The Colony, Texas, Danny Cresap of Denver, Colorado and Aaron and Cade Brown of Garland, Texas;also by 7 great-grandchildren; 1 sister, Lennie Crump of Caddo, Oklahoma, 1 brother and sister-in-law, J.B. and Marie Grimes of Redding, California; 2 sisters-in-law, Regina Deering and Eva Melton of Roswell, New Mexico; and several nieces and nephews.