Margaret Evelyn Calloway

WEST ASHEVILLE - MARGARET EVELYN CASSIDA CALLOWAY, 74, OF 121 WELLINGTON ST. DIED SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2001 AT ST. JOSEPHS HOSPITAL AFTER A PERIOD OF DECLINING HEALTH. MRS. CALLOWAY WAS NATIVE OF YANCEY COUNTY AND HAD RESIDED IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY FOR MOST OF HER LIFE. SHE WAS EMPLOYED WITH McDONALDS AS A BISCUIT MAKER SINCE 1993 AND WAS FORMERLY EMPLOYED WITH MINICO CLEANERS AND LAUNDRY FOR 45 YEARS WHERE SHE WAS AN OFFICE WORKER AND ATTENDANT. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF CLAYTON AVE. BAPTIST CHURCH. MRS. CALLOWAYS LIFE PORTRAYED THE TRUE MEANING OF PRAISE OF A VIRTUOUS WOMAN PROVERBS 31:10 WHO CAN FIND A VIRTUOUS WOMAN? FOR HER PRICE IS FAR ABOVE RUBIES. PROVERBS 31:20 SHE STRECHETH OUT HER HAND TO THE POOR; YEA, SHE REACHETH FORTH HER HANDS TO THE NEEDY. PROVERBS 31:23 HER HUSBAND IS KNOWN IN THE GATES, WHEN HE SITTETH AMONG THE ELDERS OF THE LAND. PROVERBS 31:25 STRENGTH AND HONOR ARE HER CLOTHING; AND SHE SHALL REJOICE IN TIME TO COME. PROVERBS 31:28 HER CHILDREN ARISE UP AND CALL HER BLESSED; HER HUSBAND ALSO, AND HE PRAISETH HER. PROVERBS 31:30-31 FAVOR IS DECEITFUL, AND BEAUTY IS IN VAIN: BUT A WOMEN THAT FEARETH THE LORD, SHE SHALL BE PRAISED. GIVE HER OF THE FRUIT OF HER HANDS; AND LET HER OWN WORKS PRAISE HER IN THE GATES. TRULY, THE WORLD LOST A BLESSED, LOVING AND VIRTUOUS WOMAN ON FEBRUARY 24, 2001. SHE ALWAYS PUT OTHERS NEEDS BEFORE HER OWN AND NEVER TOLD ANYONE NO. HER LOVE ABOUNDED, FOR SHE KNEW NO ONE SHE DID NOT LOVE. TRULY, SHE WAS FILLED WITH THE GRACE OF GOD. MRS. CALLOWAY WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE JAMES ALEXANDER AND MOLLIE ROLAND CASSIDA AND THE WIFE OF RICHARD VERNON CALLOWAY WHO DIED ON JANUARY 8, 1989. SURVIVING ARE HER DAUGHTER, CYNTHIA CINDY ELAINE CALLOWAY OF THE HOME; FOSTER SONS, JEFF SHIPMAN AND WIFE, DEBBIE, AND JOHNNY CALLOWAY AND WIFE WANDA ALL OF ASHEVILLE; BROTHER-IN-LAW, BOWERS E. ROBINSON OF ARDEN; SISTERS-IN-LAW, BONNIE CASSIDA OF FAIRVIEW, NORA CASSIDA OF S.C. AND RUBY CASSIDA OF ASHEVILLE AND A NUMBER OF NIECES AND NEPHEWS. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 2 PM TUESDAY IN THE ANDERS-RICE FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL WITH THE REVS BRUCE ROBINSON AND T.A. HOLDER OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN VANCE FAMILY CEMETERY, REEMS CREEK. PALLBEARERS WILL BE JEFF SHIPMAN, JEFF RHINEHART, SCOTT OWENBY, ROCKY OWENBY, MATTHEW DILLS AND CLINT PARKER. THE FAMILY WILL RECEIVE FRIENDS FROM 7 TO 9 PM MONDAY AT THE FUNERAL HOME. MEMORIALS ARE TO BE MADE TO CLAYTON AVE. BAPTIST CHURCH, P.O. BOX 6095, ASHEVILLE, NC 28816. TO REGISTER ON LINE, PLEASE GO TO THE FUNERAL SCHEDULE AT www.andersrice.com