Funeral Services will be held at a 11 am Mass of Christian Burial Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Sulphur for Mary Frances McDonald Callahan, 85, who passed away on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 4:10 pm at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Nursing Home in Opelousas, LA.
Reverend Aubrey Guilbeau will be Celebrant of the Mass and will conduct the funeral services.
Interment will take place in Mimosa Pines Cemetery in Carlyss, LA.
Mrs. Callahan, a resident of Opelousas, LA for the past three years and longtime resident of Sulphur, LA, was the daughter of the late Daniel McDonald and the former Martha Sennefeld both of Cincinnati, OH. She was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Sulphur. She was a graduate of St. Elizabeth Seton High School in Cincinnati and attended Our Lady of Cincinnati University and the University of Cincinnati.
She is survived by two daughters, Martha Heintz and husband Earl of Opelousas, LA and Maureen Cook and husband Paul of Chantilly, VA; two sons, Kevin Callahan and wife Theresa of Dequincy, LA and Daniel Callahan and wife Ann of Sulphur, LA; eleven grandchildren, Joseph Heintz, Kathleen Pool, Catherine Bombarra, Cheryl Nadine Blake, Michelle Cornett, Mary Beth Cook, Jennifer Sims, Allison Callahan, Derek Fruge, Jeremy Fruge and Dwight Daigle, Sr. and sixteen great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Joseph Walter Callahan; one sister, Irene Gener.
The family requests that visiting hours be observed on Monday, November 19, 2012 at Hixson-Sulphur Memorial Funeral Home from 5:00 pm until 9:00 pm. A scripture service will be held at 6:00 pm Monday evening in the funeral home, followed by a rosary service. Visitation will continue on Tuesday from 8:00 am until the time of services.
Pallbearers will be Joseph Heintz, Derek Fruge, Jeremy Fruge, Michael Pool, Tiger Sims and Shannon Blake.
Hixson-Sulphur Memorial Funeral Home, 2051 East Napoleon Street, Sulphur, LA, is in charge of funeral arrangements.
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