Kern County Obituaries

Billy Jo Callahan

Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008

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Source Unknown; 23 Feb 1956

Billy Joe's Death Saddens Many Friends

The entire community of Mojave was saddened by the death of Billy Jo Callahan, 
29, of 122 L Street, who had been employed as a truck driver for General 
Petroleum Co.
Billy Jo died in a Mojave Hospital at 8:20 a.m. Thursday, February 16, 1956, from 
what was apparently an overdose of sleeping tablets, according to findings of 
Coroner Stan Newman. Final reason however, will not be known until a pathologist 
makes known his findings from the ordered autopsy.
Callahan had been a resident of Mojave since 1936 and was born in Oklahoma, 
November 28, 1926, He attended Mojave Elementary School and Antelope Valley High 
School.
He is survived by his widow, Jeanine, daughter, Kathy, 4, son, Jimmy. 2, mother 
Mrs. Ethel Young, 'and a brother, Bobby all of Mojave.
Funeral services were held Monday, February 20 at 2 p.m. in the Community 
Congregational Church attended by an overflowing crowd of his friends and 
neighbors, officiated over by the Rev. Dr. Torrance Phelps, minister of the church. 
Interment followed in the Mojave cemetery.