Robert Leroy Calloway, 71

SEAFORD - Robert Leroy Calloway of Seaford died Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007, in Peninsula Regional Medical Center, Salisbury, Md. He was 71.

Mr. Calloway worked as a packer foreman at the Freihofer Baking Co., Delmar, for 12 years. He then went to work at the DuPont Co., Seaford, where he was a dock foreman. He worked there for 28 years, retiring in 1992.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He was a member of the American Legion Post 6, Seaford, and an active contributor to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Mr. Calloway was an avid sports fan.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Susie Marie (Bennett) Calloway, in November 2001; and a son, John Calloway, in 1990.

He is survived by a daughter, Catherine Lynn Pennington and her husband Brian of Harrington; two sisters, Betty Grazela and her husband Joe of Newark, and Doris Frye and her husband Ernie of Milford; four brothers, Jim Calloway and his wife Evelyn, and William Calloway, all of Delmar, Kenneth Calloway and his wife Carolyn of Laurel, and Charles Calloway and his wife Mary Jo of Maryland; two grandchildren, Duane and Kimberly; and a step-grandson, Brian.

Graveside services with military honors will be 2 p.m. Monday in Bridgeville Cemetery.

Archbishop Charles Singman will be officiating.

Arrangements by Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium, Hardesty Chapel, 202 Laws St., Bridgeville.