Tupelo Daily Journal
Wednesday, January 29, 1975
Mrs. Wax Rites Set
Fulton Resident Dies At Age 92
FULTON - Mrs. Callie Bowen Wax, 92, of Fulton died at 4:30 p.m. Monday at Itawamba County Hospital in Fulton.
Mrs. Wax was married to Roy R. Wax who died in 1956. Prior to his death they had lived in Fulton and Tremont for the past 22 years.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday from McNeece-Morris Chapel with Minister Ronnie Brown officiating. Burial will be in Amory Masonic Cemetery.
Surviving are two daughters, Miss Madge Wax of Fulton and Mrs. M.L. Robinson of Tremont; one sister, Miss Lela Bowen of Fulton; one grandson.
Notes for Callie E. Bowen
From a story called "My Dinner At Callie's" by Charles R. Bowen, son of Neely Bowen, 1999.
The summer of 1944 I was supposed to go to Yale, but my parents decided I must be tired after graduating from the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. I didn't feel tired so I started writing a novel, To See Again The Stars, from the last line of Dante's Inferno. The book turned out to be longer than Gone With The Wind, so my father felt I might like to go down to Fulton, Mississippi to finish it at Aunt Leta and Aunt Sarah's. I stayed there, some miles outside of Fulton, for eight weeks.
A highlight of my stay was the visit to Aunt Callie's. She lived on the Tombigbee river in a large unpainted, one and a half story "settler's cabin" made of shaped logs. It had a long front porch which overlooked the river and the summer house. This was a screened in structure where Callie served meals for fishermen.
I had a reputation of being a big eater so Callie rolled out the fatted calf. The first course was squirrel stew with rice, made with green peppers and served over rice. That was followed by crusty fried catfish (a center cut steak) with pickled green tomatoes. As if that weren't enough, she followed that with a pot roast cooked deep in drippings with new potatoes also cooked in the drippings. On the side were pickled peaches.
For dessert she served a large slice of freshly baked, relatively wet, white cake with thick coconut frosting. For years I considered that the best meal I ever had.
Callie, as you might expect, was very successful with her meals. She used the money she made to buy property along the river. When the Federal Government spent $2 billion to construct the Tenn-Tom Canal, her properties became very valuable.
But she was not so lucky otherwise. In addition to two daughters she had a son, Winston, who was her pride and joy.
Winston was then in Europe with the U.S. forces. He was quite a hero and slew many Germans. He would send home to Callie mementoes taken from those he slew -- members of the Munich Symphony and other German soldiers.
After the war ended, a German family, impressed with Winston, wanted to hire him to manage their estate and castle, but Winston came home instead.
It was then that tragedy struck. Winston and his puny father (who was specifically excluded from Grandpa Bowen's will) became involved in a boundary dispute with a neighbor whose mule had wandered into their field. A fight ensued and both Winston and his father were stabbed. They rushed his father to the hospital, and while they were attending to his wounds (he recovered, of course) Winston, in the true style of a Spartan hero, dropped dead of his wounds.
- Charles R. Bowen 1999
Wednesday, January 29, 1975
Mrs. Wax Rites Set
Fulton Resident Dies At Age 92
FULTON - Mrs. Callie Bowen Wax, 92, of Fulton died at 4:30 p.m. Monday at Itawamba County Hospital in Fulton.
Mrs. Wax was married to Roy R. Wax who died in 1956. Prior to his death they had lived in Fulton and Tremont for the past 22 years.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday from McNeece-Morris Chapel with Minister Ronnie Brown officiating. Burial will be in Amory Masonic Cemetery.
Surviving are two daughters, Miss Madge Wax of Fulton and Mrs. M.L. Robinson of Tremont; one sister, Miss Lela Bowen of Fulton; one grandson.
Notes for Callie E. Bowen
From a story called "My Dinner At Callie's" by Charles R. Bowen, son of Neely Bowen, 1999.
The summer of 1944 I was supposed to go to Yale, but my parents decided I must be tired after graduating from the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. I didn't feel tired so I started writing a novel, To See Again The Stars, from the last line of Dante's Inferno. The book turned out to be longer than Gone With The Wind, so my father felt I might like to go down to Fulton, Mississippi to finish it at Aunt Leta and Aunt Sarah's. I stayed there, some miles outside of Fulton, for eight weeks.
A highlight of my stay was the visit to Aunt Callie's. She lived on the Tombigbee river in a large unpainted, one and a half story "settler's cabin" made of shaped logs. It had a long front porch which overlooked the river and the summer house. This was a screened in structure where Callie served meals for fishermen.
I had a reputation of being a big eater so Callie rolled out the fatted calf. The first course was squirrel stew with rice, made with green peppers and served over rice. That was followed by crusty fried catfish (a center cut steak) with pickled green tomatoes. As if that weren't enough, she followed that with a pot roast cooked deep in drippings with new potatoes also cooked in the drippings. On the side were pickled peaches.
For dessert she served a large slice of freshly baked, relatively wet, white cake with thick coconut frosting. For years I considered that the best meal I ever had.
Callie, as you might expect, was very successful with her meals. She used the money she made to buy property along the river. When the Federal Government spent $2 billion to construct the Tenn-Tom Canal, her properties became very valuable.
But she was not so lucky otherwise. In addition to two daughters she had a son, Winston, who was her pride and joy.
Winston was then in Europe with the U.S. forces. He was quite a hero and slew many Germans. He would send home to Callie mementoes taken from those he slew -- members of the Munich Symphony and other German soldiers.
After the war ended, a German family, impressed with Winston, wanted to hire him to manage their estate and castle, but Winston came home instead.
It was then that tragedy struck. Winston and his puny father (who was specifically excluded from Grandpa Bowen's will) became involved in a boundary dispute with a neighbor whose mule had wandered into their field. A fight ensued and both Winston and his father were stabbed. They rushed his father to the hospital, and while they were attending to his wounds (he recovered, of course) Winston, in the true style of a Spartan hero, dropped dead of his wounds.
- Charles R. Bowen 1999
Tupelo Daily Journal
Wednesday, January 29, 1975
Mrs. Wax Rites Set
Fulton Resident Dies At Age 92
FULTON - Mrs. Callie Bowen Wax, 92, of Fulton died at 4:30 p.m. Monday at Itawamba County Hospital in Fulton.
Mrs. Wax was married to Roy R. Wax who died in 1956. Prior to his death they had lived in Fulton and Tremont for the past 22 years.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday from McNeece-Morris Chapel with Minister Ronnie Brown officiating. Burial will be in Amory Masonic Cemetery.
Surviving are two daughters, Miss Madge Wax of Fulton and Mrs. M.L. Robinson of Tremont; one sister, Miss Lela Bowen of Fulton; one grandson.
Notes for Callie E. Bowen
From a story called "My Dinner At Callie's" by Charles R. Bowen, son of Neely Bowen, 1999.
The summer of 1944 I was supposed to go to Yale, but my parents decided I must be tired after graduating from the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. I didn't feel tired so I started writing a novel, To See Again The Stars, from the last line of Dante's Inferno. The book turned out to be longer than Gone With The Wind, so my father felt I might like to go down to Fulton, Mississippi to finish it at Aunt Leta and Aunt Sarah's. I stayed there, some miles outside of Fulton, for eight weeks.
A highlight of my stay was the visit to Aunt Callie's. She lived on the Tombigbee river in a large unpainted, one and a half story "settler's cabin" made of shaped logs. It had a long front porch which overlooked the river and the summer house. This was a screened in structure where Callie served meals for fishermen.
I had a reputation of being a big eater so Callie rolled out the fatted calf. The first course was squirrel stew with rice, made with green peppers and served over rice. That was followed by crusty fried catfish (a center cut steak) with pickled green tomatoes. As if that weren't enough, she followed that with a pot roast cooked deep in drippings with new potatoes also cooked in the drippings. On the side were pickled peaches.
For dessert she served a large slice of freshly baked, relatively wet, white cake with thick coconut frosting. For years I considered that the best meal I ever had.
Callie, as you might expect, was very successful with her meals. She used the money she made to buy property along the river. When the Federal Government spent $2 billion to construct the Tenn-Tom Canal, her properties became very valuable.
But she was not so lucky otherwise. In addition to two daughters she had a son, Winston, who was her pride and joy.
Winston was then in Europe with the U.S. forces. He was quite a hero and slew many Germans. He would send home to Callie mementoes taken from those he slew -- members of the Munich Symphony and other German soldiers.
After the war ended, a German family, impressed with Winston, wanted to hire him to manage their estate and castle, but Winston came home instead.
It was then that tragedy struck. Winston and his puny father (who was specifically excluded from Grandpa Bowen's will) became involved in a boundary dispute with a neighbor whose mule had wandered into their field. A fight ensued and both Winston and his father were stabbed. They rushed his father to the hospital, and while they were attending to his wounds (he recovered, of course) Winston, in the true style of a Spartan hero, dropped dead of his wounds.
- Charles R. Bowen 1999
Wednesday, January 29, 1975
Mrs. Wax Rites Set
Fulton Resident Dies At Age 92
FULTON - Mrs. Callie Bowen Wax, 92, of Fulton died at 4:30 p.m. Monday at Itawamba County Hospital in Fulton.
Mrs. Wax was married to Roy R. Wax who died in 1956. Prior to his death they had lived in Fulton and Tremont for the past 22 years.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday from McNeece-Morris Chapel with Minister Ronnie Brown officiating. Burial will be in Amory Masonic Cemetery.
Surviving are two daughters, Miss Madge Wax of Fulton and Mrs. M.L. Robinson of Tremont; one sister, Miss Lela Bowen of Fulton; one grandson.
Notes for Callie E. Bowen
From a story called "My Dinner At Callie's" by Charles R. Bowen, son of Neely Bowen, 1999.
The summer of 1944 I was supposed to go to Yale, but my parents decided I must be tired after graduating from the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. I didn't feel tired so I started writing a novel, To See Again The Stars, from the last line of Dante's Inferno. The book turned out to be longer than Gone With The Wind, so my father felt I might like to go down to Fulton, Mississippi to finish it at Aunt Leta and Aunt Sarah's. I stayed there, some miles outside of Fulton, for eight weeks.
A highlight of my stay was the visit to Aunt Callie's. She lived on the Tombigbee river in a large unpainted, one and a half story "settler's cabin" made of shaped logs. It had a long front porch which overlooked the river and the summer house. This was a screened in structure where Callie served meals for fishermen.
I had a reputation of being a big eater so Callie rolled out the fatted calf. The first course was squirrel stew with rice, made with green peppers and served over rice. That was followed by crusty fried catfish (a center cut steak) with pickled green tomatoes. As if that weren't enough, she followed that with a pot roast cooked deep in drippings with new potatoes also cooked in the drippings. On the side were pickled peaches.
For dessert she served a large slice of freshly baked, relatively wet, white cake with thick coconut frosting. For years I considered that the best meal I ever had.
Callie, as you might expect, was very successful with her meals. She used the money she made to buy property along the river. When the Federal Government spent $2 billion to construct the Tenn-Tom Canal, her properties became very valuable.
But she was not so lucky otherwise. In addition to two daughters she had a son, Winston, who was her pride and joy.
Winston was then in Europe with the U.S. forces. He was quite a hero and slew many Germans. He would send home to Callie mementoes taken from those he slew -- members of the Munich Symphony and other German soldiers.
After the war ended, a German family, impressed with Winston, wanted to hire him to manage their estate and castle, but Winston came home instead.
It was then that tragedy struck. Winston and his puny father (who was specifically excluded from Grandpa Bowen's will) became involved in a boundary dispute with a neighbor whose mule had wandered into their field. A fight ensued and both Winston and his father were stabbed. They rushed his father to the hospital, and while they were attending to his wounds (he recovered, of course) Winston, in the true style of a Spartan hero, dropped dead of his wounds.
- Charles R. Bowen 1999
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