SCOTT CITY - Maxine Leist Callaway, 62, a native of the former community of Illmo, died Saturday, Feb. 15, 1992 at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff, Ark.
Callaway, of Pine Bluff, was born at Illmo Feb. 24, 1929, daughter of Otto Leist of Scott City and the late Berneice Lambert Leist. On April 9, 1950, she married James Lewis Callaway in Illmo. He survives.
She attended Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, moving to Pine Bluff in 1959. She taught kindergarten for 10 years at St. Luke's United Methodist Church and later worked as an insurance clerk at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. She was a member of St. Luke's and the United Methodist Women.
Surviving in addition to her husband and father are a son, Jay N. Callaway, and a daughter, Glenda C. Raley, both of Pine Bluff; a brother, Nick Leist of Jackson; a sister, Peggy Raines of Scott City; and a grandson.
Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the chapel at Ralph Robinson and Son funeral home. The Revs. Louann Hollis and Gordon Topping will officiate.
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