GRANBURY — James C. Callihan, 73, passed away Monday, Nov. 2, 2015, in Granbury.
Funeral: 10:00 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, at Wiley Funeral Home. Burial: 3:00 P.M. at Lost Creek Cemetery in May, Texas. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
James was born May 30, 1942, in Gracemont, Okla., to John Thomas Callihan and Dolly Beulah Morgan Callihan. He married Dova Katherine Grimm, Nov. 25, 1959, in Kermit, Texas. He was a member of Lakeside Baptist Church. James worked as a meat cutter for Safeway for more than 25 years and was called the “brisket man”. He was an avid hunter and woodsman and loved to RV. He had served as Deacon in the First Baptist Church in Roswell, N.M. The most important thing in James’s life was his relationship with the Lord and being a devoted husband, father, papa and Pow Pow. He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Donald Earl Callihan.
Survivors: Wife, Dova Callihan; sons, James Dean Callihan and wife, Lisa, Kenneth Charles Callihan and wife, Cindy; grandchildren, Randi Lynn Williams and husband, Blake, Amber Renee Callihan, Bethanie Mae Reynolds, Eric Joseph Overby and wife, Mary, James Craig Callihan and wife, Kristen; great grandchildren, Livia, Audrey, Aurora, Michael James, Caleb, Kennedy Marie, Franklin; brother, John Thomas Callihan and wife, Michelle; sisters, Peggy Noakes and husband, Earl, Wanda Jones and husband, Wayne, Dee Ray and husband, Bill; sister-in-law, Gerda Callihan.