A Tribute
Miss Andrews or Calista as "we girls" called her came from her birth place,Fryeburg,Maine,to River Falls when quite young and for some years was in the home of her brother Dr. A.D. Andrews.
She was one of the leading spirits of our circle of young people. Later with Fannie Stevens, now Mrs.John T. Gulick of Honolulu, she entered Oberlin college where she graduated and afterwards became a member of the faculty of the institution.
When the death of a sister Mrs. G. C. Winchester, and also the death of her brother's wife, left two motherless children, each two years of age, duty seemed to her, to call her from her chosen work, at her brother's request, to preside over his home where she became a true mother to Walter and Amy. After the death of her brother and mother who was also a member of the Andrews home, she again went to Oberlin, where she built a beautiful home for herself and the two children and lived there several years. Again duty called her aside; an invalid brother living in New England, needed her care and she left her Oberlin home to minister to his wants. She also build a home in Lake Alfred Florida where she spent a part of two years.
At the time of her death February 23, 1917 she was making her home with her nephew, Dr. Walter Winchester of Flint, Michigan, who reached River Falls Sunday evening to assist in carrying out his aunt's request that she might be laid beside her loved ones in Greenwood cemetery.
The funeral service was held Monday afternoon, February 26, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Deans and friends of years gone by laid her to rest beside her dear dead.
Calista Andrews was a woman of strong convictions, quick of perception,delicacy of tastes and efficiency in planning, a devote Christian and intensely interested in missions for which she labored earnestly through all the years.
Her labors for the church and Sunday school were abundant and she was one of the foremost in planning for their interests.
As a girl she was brilliant, witty and winsome. Later, as has already been suggested, she became a conspicuous bearer of burdens for others.
I can hardly associate the thought of death with her. It seem as I think of her, that having walked with God so faithfully through the years, loving Father has just ta'
taken her to Himself. "They are not dead, they are just away."
In River Falls she leaves four nieces, Mrs. Charles Deans, Miss Libbie Ellis, Mrs. Henry Walker and Mrs. Agnes White of New York.
"The dear face is gone, the warm heart is still,"
"Yet love will dream and faith will trust."
"(Since He who knows our frame is just.)
That somehow, somewhere, meet we must."
-S.T.
River Falls Journal 3-1-1917

Miss Calista Andrews, 1875. Miss Calista Andrews was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, October 13, 1845. Her parents soon moved to Frysburg, an adjoining town, and she always spoke of the latter as her New England home. After several years of teaching Miss Andrews, in 1873, came to Oberlin, hoping to teach physical culture; but Oberlin at that time lacked both the enthusiasm and funds for that subject. She entered Oberlin College and was graduated with the class of 1875. The following year she was made a member of the Faculty in the Preparatory Department. Various calls came to her to help friends, which she did generously. In 1899 she came to Oberlin, where she built a home and where she cared for a nephew and niece. Later she moved to Danvers, Massachusetts, and again a change was made and she transferred her home to Florida. Last June she returned to the home of her nephew, Dr. Walter Winchester, of Flint, Michigan, where she died of heart disease, February 23, 1917. She was buried at River Falls, Wisconsin.
Oberlin alumni magazine, Volume 13, Issue 8
By Oberlin College Alumni Association