Greene-Fulton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Callaway, John Wilson May 11, 2010
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, GA, May 13 - 14, 2010, @http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta/obituary.aspx?n=john-callaway&pid=142711549:
CALLAWAY, John Col. (Ret.)

   Established in America by the four brothers, Job, John, Joseph, and Joshua 
who settled in Wilkes County in 1783, the Callaway family and their 
descendants have included ecclesiastical, military, political and civic 
leaders who were highly influential in the development of the state of 
Georgia. Colonel (retired) John Wilson Callaway is descended from William 
Reeves Callaway, the fifth child of Reverend Enoch and Martha Reeves Callaway. 
His grandfather was Capt. Rev. John Sanders Callaway who was a Baptist 
Minister from Penfield, Georgia, and who preached in the original chapel of 
Mercer University. John's father was John Sanders Callaway, Jr., the Mayor of 
Greensboro, Georgia and a State Representative of Georgia, and his mother was 
Frances Wilson Callaway. John was predeceased by his wife of 59 years, 
Madeleine Sohlstrom Callaway and his brothers, Lt. Francis Fielding Callaway, 
who was killed in action in WWII in Metz, France, and William Reid Callaway 
who is survived by his wife, Barbara, of Greensboro, Georgia. John is survived 
by his brother Talmadge Sanders Callaway married to Josephine, and his sons, 
Francis Fielding Callaway II who is married to Suzanne and John Wilson 
Callaway, Jr. married to Katherine. Also surviving are his grandchildren, 
Jennifer who is married to Bob Garlow, John Elliott, Christopher, Mary 
Katherine, Christina, Taylor, Elizabeth, his great grandchildren Zachary 
Garlow and Austin Garlow, and many nieces and nephews of the extended Callaway 
family. John was born in Penfield, Georgia November 6, 1915. He attended North 
Georgia College and the West Point Preparatory School. Upon graduating from 
the United States Military Academy, he was commissioned a second lieutenant of 
Infantry in 1941. FFrom 1941 to 1944, he served in the Pacific Theater in the 
24th Infantry Division as a company officer and Regimental Adjutant of the 
34th Infantry Regiment. Returning to the US, he was a faculty member of the 
Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia and then served as Infantry Advisor 
to the Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Kansas. Colonel Callaway was assigned to 
Korea in 1950, shortly after hostilities broke out there, and commanded the 
2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, until his 
return to the US in July 1951. In 1952 he served for two years in Washington, 
DC as a Department of the Army Liaison officer to the United States Congress. 
In 1955, he attended the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk. From 1956 to 
1959, he served as a member of the United States Delegation to NATO, Paris, 
Īle-de-France, France. He attended the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode 
Island from 1959 to 1960 and then joined the faculty of the Command and 
General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. In 1964, he returned to Korea as 
Chief of Staff of the 1st Cavalry Division and 2nd Infantry Division near the 
demilitarized zone. Returning to the US in 1965, he was assigned to 
Headquarters, United States Continental Army Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia. 
From 1969 through 1971, Colonel Callaway served as Commanding Officer of Fort 
McPherson in Atlanta. For his distinguished service, Colonel Callaway was 
decorated with the Silver Star with three Oak Leaf Clusters, Legion of Merit, 
Bronze Star, and Army Commendation Medal. He was also awarded the Government 
of Greece Distinguished Service Medal and the Republic of Korea Presidential 
Unit Citation. John was a long-time member of St. Luke's Presbyterian Church 
in Dunwoody where he served as an Elder. He was also a member of the West End 
and Dunwoody Rotary Clubs and was awarded the Boy Scouts of America Silver 
Beaver Award. He was a Mason and also served on the board of the United Way. 
H. M. Patterson is in charge of arrangements. Visitation will take place at 
Arlington Chapel, 173 Allen Road, Friday, May 14, 2010 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. 
Burial with a Military Honor Guard will take place at Arlington Memorial Park 
Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 11:00 am and will be followed by a service and 
reception at St. Luke's Presbyterian Church, 1978 Mount Vernon Road beginning 
at 12:30 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Colonel Callaway's 
memory to the American Cancer Society or to Callaway Gardens, P.O. Box 2000, 
Pine Mountain, Georgia 31822. A man of deep faith and family devotion, Colonel 
Callaway lived a life of "Duty, Honor, Country" and reminds us of the words of 
General Douglas MacArthur, "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. I now 
close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do 
his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty." 

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