Mary E. Kelley

Mary Call Kelley went to our Heavenly Father on Thursday, March 13, 2014. Funeral service, 10 a.m. Monday at The Catholic Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Arlingon. Visitation, 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, with rosary at 7 p.m., at Moore Bowen Road Funeral Home.Mary was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. She married Kenneth Robert Call and raised seven children, Marie Lynn York, Linda Marie Call, Karen Marie Call, Roma Marie Call, Teresa Marie Barberousse, Mark Daniel Call and Gina Marie Call. All were members of St. Alphonsus Church in Springdale, Pa. Mary and Kenneth transferred to Texas in 1985 and became members of St. Maria Goretti and St. Joseph Catholic churches. Mary's interests were traveling and visiting holy shrines, including Holy Land, Lourdes, France, and Medjegorje. Kenneth Call passed away with cancer after their 42 years of marriage, in 1999. Mary became a lay Carmelite member in 2000. She met Robert Kelley and they were married in 2003. Both continued in Carmelite then moved to St. Francis Village in Crowley, where they lived for six years. Mary and Bob continued making pilgrimages to Medjegorje and were members of St. Patrick, Fort Worth Cathedral. They moved to Arlington to make a home. Mary enjoyed many interests such as playing the harp, painting, sewing and decorating. Mary and Bob belonged to St. Maria Goretti Church and St. Mary of the Virgin Catholic Church, and were members of Direction for Our Times Prayer Group in Fort Worth. Mary was preceded in death by Gina Marie Call in 1995; and two older sisters, Elizabeth in 1995, and Anne "Annie" in 1998. Also, Mary has a niece, Carole Obrokta, living in Philadelphia, Pa., and working in the Catholic Diocese, Pa.