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Billy Joe Callahan

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Billy Joe Callahan

Birth
Howe, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, USA
Death
16 Feb 1956 (aged 29)
Mojave, Kern County, California, USA
Burial
Mojave, Kern County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section Old Plot G Lot 74
Memorial ID
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Mother last name listed as James
Father last name listed as Simposn
CADI

Death: CALLAHAN, Billy Jo
Author: Don Stowell Date: 7 May 2005 1:31 PM GMT
Surnames: Young,
Classification: Death

Billy Joe's Death Saddens Many Friends

The entire community of Mojave was saddened by the death of Billy Jo Callahan, 29, of 122 L Street, who had been employed as a truck driver for General Petroleum Co.
Billy Jo died in a Mojave Hospital at 8:20 a.m. Thursday, February 16, 1956, from what was apparently an overdose of sleeping tablets, according to findings of Coroner Stan Newman. Final reason however, will not be known until a pathologist makes known his findings from the ordered autopsy.
Callahan had been a resident of Mojave since 1936 and was born in Oklahoma, November 28, 1926, He attended Mojave Elementary School and Antelope Valley High School.
He is survived by his widow, Jeanine, daughter, Kathy, 4, son, Jimmy. 2, mother Mrs. Ethel Young, and a brother, Bobby all of Mojave.
Funeral services were held Monday, February 20 at 2 p.m. in the Community Congregational Church attended by an overflowing crowd of his friends and neighbors, officiated over by the Rev. Dr. Torrance Phelps, minister of the church. Interment followed in the Mojave cemetery.

Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society
Courtesy of Mojave Desert News
California City, Kern, CA
Published: 23 Feb 1956


Mother last name listed as James
Father last name listed as Simposn
CADI

Death: CALLAHAN, Billy Jo
Author: Don Stowell Date: 7 May 2005 1:31 PM GMT
Surnames: Young,
Classification: Death

Billy Joe's Death Saddens Many Friends

The entire community of Mojave was saddened by the death of Billy Jo Callahan, 29, of 122 L Street, who had been employed as a truck driver for General Petroleum Co.
Billy Jo died in a Mojave Hospital at 8:20 a.m. Thursday, February 16, 1956, from what was apparently an overdose of sleeping tablets, according to findings of Coroner Stan Newman. Final reason however, will not be known until a pathologist makes known his findings from the ordered autopsy.
Callahan had been a resident of Mojave since 1936 and was born in Oklahoma, November 28, 1926, He attended Mojave Elementary School and Antelope Valley High School.
He is survived by his widow, Jeanine, daughter, Kathy, 4, son, Jimmy. 2, mother Mrs. Ethel Young, and a brother, Bobby all of Mojave.
Funeral services were held Monday, February 20 at 2 p.m. in the Community Congregational Church attended by an overflowing crowd of his friends and neighbors, officiated over by the Rev. Dr. Torrance Phelps, minister of the church. Interment followed in the Mojave cemetery.

Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society
Courtesy of Mojave Desert News
California City, Kern, CA
Published: 23 Feb 1956




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