Fay Pearl Kalbaugh
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Fay Pearl Kalbaugh
April 5, 1923 - July 26, 2014
Fay Pearl Cullom Kalbaugh, 91, of
Beaumont, died July 26, 2014. She was
born on April 5, 1923, in McComb, Mississippi, and was the daughter of Pearl
Gardner and Peter Cullom. She grew up
during the great depression with numerous aunts and cousins. Fay graduated from
high school in Clintwood, Virginia, and attended Carson Newman College in
Jefferson City, Tennessee, in 1944. She
was married to Elmore P. “Mo” Kalbaugh that same year in San Angelo, Texas, by
her father, a Baptist minister. The
couple lived in Richmond, Virginia, where Mo was in medical school and Fay
attended the Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
The couple and their growing family
lived in Phoenix, Arizona, Berkley, California and Lexington, Kentucky, before
moving to Port Arthur, Texas in 1954 and then to Beaumont in 1966. Fay received a Masters Degree in English from
Lamar University in 1975. She taught
literature at the Paris American Academy summer program in Paris, France,
belonged to the Medical Auxiliary, the Beaumont Public Library Board, the
Beaumont Art Museum Board, as well as numerous bridge and book clubs. Fay excelled at cooking, painting, fashion,
sculpture, photography and published two books of poetry and a memoir of her
clothing, plus wrote numerous journals and short stories about her life.
She is survived by her
three children, Ed Kalbaugh and his wife, Mary Rose, of Los Angeles,
California; Jolie McCoy and her husband, Alan, of Rapid City, South Dakota; and
Sandra Anderson and her husband, Steve, of Lompoc, California; five
grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and sister, Mary Small of Virginia.
A graveside service for
Mrs. Kalbaugh will be 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at Forest Lawn
Memorial Park in Beaumont, under the direction of Broussard’s, 2000 McFaddin,
Beaumont.
Special thanks go to
the Calder Woods staff; J. R. and Linda Cullom of Houston; special friends Ruth
Catalano and Annette Longuevan; and the caregivers from the Libby Taylor Agency
for their help and care.
Memorial contributions in
Mrs. Kalbaugh’s name may be made to Some Other Place, P O Box 843, Beaumont,
Texas 77704.
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