Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Callahan, Anne Marie Sullivan December 17, 1998
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Virginian-Pilot  December 20, 1998
Anne Marie Sullivan Callahan, 73, of the 1400 block of Manteo St., died Thursday, 
Dec. 17, 1998, in her home. Mrs. Callahan was the widow of John T. ''Jack'' 
Callahan, Jr. who predeceased her in 1994.

Mrs. Callahan was born in Norfolk and lived here her entire life. She graduated 
from Holy Trinity High School in Norfolk in 1943, where she was the valedictorian 
of her class. Mrs. Callahan had a long successful career with the federal 
government, beginning in 1943, when she began working at the Port of Embarcation. 
She worked there until 1953, when she married Jack and they started a family. She 
returned to work again in 1968, at the Naval Air Rework Facility, and then in 
1977, became an EEOC investigator. In 1983 she became a personnel staffing expert, 
the position from which she retired in 1990. During the mid 1960s, she served as 
the treasurer for the Council of Catholic Women and most recently performed 
volunteer work at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and was the vice president of 
the National Association of Retired Federal Employees (NARFE).

Mrs. Callahan was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church where she was the first 
child baptized in the church at its present location. She was also a member of the 
Harbor Club.

Survivors include her daughter, Mary Margaret Callahan Lyons, of Norfolk; four 
sons, John T. Callahan, III, of Norfolk, Francis Sullivan ''Sully'' Callahan, of 
Norfolk, Michael Joseph Callahan, of Westfield, N.J., and Robert Patrick Callahan 
of New York, N.Y.; two sisters, Margaret Perkins Sullivan, of Virginia Beach, and 
Rosemary Sullivan Coffman, of El Toro, Calif.; and 14 grandchildren. She was 
predeceased by her two brothers, Francis John Sullivan Jr. and Philip Joseph 
Sullivan.

A Mass of Christian Burial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at Sacred 
Heart Catholic Church by Fr. John J. Dorgan. Burial will be at St. Mary's Catholic 
Cemetery.

A Christian wake service will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday at Sacred Heart Catholic 
Church. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Mary's Infant 
Home.  H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk Chapel, is handling arrangements.

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