Dorothy Aileen McCallon, Burlington
1920 - 2007
Dorothy Aileen McCallon of Burlington died Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007, at Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka. She was 87.
Mrs. McCallon was elected Coffey County Treasurer in 1964 and served for 20 years until she retired. She also was a homemaker and helped her husband farm.
The daughter of Joseph J. and Ruth R. Tipton Birk, she was born Aug. 16, 1920, on the family farm southwest of Burlington. She graduated from Burlington High School in 1939. She moved to Burlington in 1964.
She married Charles A. Ellis on Feb. 28, 1940, at the Methodist parsonage at Lebo. They lived on a farm south of Lebo, later moved to Gridley, the Otter Creek Community and, in 1952, to LeRoy. Mr. Ellis died in a hunting accident on Dec. 20, 1963. She married Albert D. McCallon on April 16, 1993, at Overbrook. He died Sept. 3, 1993.
Mrs. McCallon was a member of the United Methodist Church in Burlington. She was a member of the B.P.W., TOPS and the Rebekah Lodge. Earlier, she helped her children with 4-H and other activities. For the past six years she has lived with her granddaughter, Monique Burns, and her family in Burlington.
She is survived by one daughter, Betty Skillett of Emporia; two sons, Bob Ellis of Overbrook and Bill Ellis of Winthrop Harbor, Ill.; 13 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren. One sister, Wanda Miller; and four brothers, Harold Birk, Rex Birk, Paul Birk and Edward Birk, died earlier.
The funeral will be at 1:30 p.m Wednesday at the United Methodist Church in Burlington. Burial will be in Lincoln Cemetery at Lebo. The family will meet friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Jones Funeral Home in Burlington.
Memorial contributions to the church may be sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 277, Burlington, KS 66839.