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Vol. 114, No. ??	Month DAY, 2007

Former Magistrate Don Callecod passes away at 67

By LARRY SEE JR.
Messenger Staff

Former District 3 Magistrate Donald Edward Callecod, 67, Flaherty, died last week after a long battle with cancer.

He passed away Tuesday, Sept. 4 at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown.

In addition to serving as a magistrate, Mr. Callecod was a veteran of the United States Army.

His memberships included being a volunteer firefighter with the Flaherty Fire Department since 1979, where he served as an elected trustee for 11 years; a volunteer emergency medical technician since 1985; was active in developing the Flaherty Ballpark; was a nine-year coach for 5th-and 6th-grade basketball teams; belonged to VFW Post 10281 and was active in the American Red Cross.

County Treasurer Shirley Fackler called him a “very, very good person.”

“He knew about everything and had a photographic memory,” she said. “He knew all about the roads, the financial situation and everything else going on within the county.”

Fackler said a lot of times Callecod disagreed with her, but minutes after doing so he would turn around and tell a joke or something.

“He would throw a fit and then the next minute he would turn around and tell you a joke,” she said.

Always cordial, Callecod often had fits of frustration and then everything would be back to normal. “He was a good man,” Fackler remembered. “He was very informed and a very, very smart man. I can’t say enough good about him. He was always very cordial and very nice with me.”

He was preceded in death by his father, Edward, and a sister, Winnie.

Survivors include his wife, Donna of Flaherty; five children, his mother, four siblings and five grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Sept. 7, from the Coffey & Chism Funeral Home, with a burial featuring military honors at the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Central in Radcliff.

A complete obituary is on 2B.

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