The Callahan family and Westside Church will host a memorial service for Bob and Iolene Callahan on Monday, November 27, 2023. Westside Church is at 15050 W. Dodge Road, Omaha, NE 68154. The Service will be at 10:30 am, with Lunch served after. You can find a live stream of the service at www.wchurch.tv website. There should be a banner across the screen on the day of the service.

Robert Ford Callahan was born October 29, 1935 on his grandparents farm, in Duncan, Oklahoma. He chose in-home hospice care in February 2023, leaving this earth on February 8th. He battled a blood cancer for many years. The immediate family were all together, in the family home in Omaha. Bob was preceded in death by his parents Raymond Wesley and Helen Adams Callahan, and his brothers Roger Ray Callahan, and Charles Kent Callahan.

Iris Iolene Callahan passed unexpectedly on November 10, 2023 following a short illness and a subsequent heart surgery. Iolene was born December 21, 1939 on her family's farm near Sterling, Oklahoma. She and Bob were married in 1956 in Sterling, Oklahoma. Bob and Iolene completed a very successful career where Bob worked for the United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons. Their career took them from Oklahoma to Northern Virginia (D.C.), Jackson Mississippi, back to Northern Virginia, Dallas Texas, Leavenworth Kansas, and Bastrop Texas. Iolene was also able to stay in the Family Home until her hospitalization. She is preceded in death by her parents Mart Guy Vaught and Iris Dee Wright Vaught, husband Robert F. Callahan, and brothers Delwin Vaught and John Wesley Vaught.

Bob and Iolene are survived by two sons Gregory Robert (Detra) Callahan and Ty Scott (Shelley) Callahan, grandchildren Kacey Layne (Sean) Callahan Unthank, Blakely Austin Callahan, Montgomery Cole Callahan, and Marshall Ford Callahan, great grandchildren Evey Nora Unthank and Ashton Miles Unthank, their beloved sister Dana Beth Callahan and sister-n-law Nancy Vaught and niece Jillian (Stephen) Vaught-Blair, along with Bob's many cousins, and both of their many loving nieces and nephews, also special, lifelong friends Tommy and Rita Gilliam and Donny and Pauline Cobb, and dear friends Bill and Diane Dalius.

We will also plan an interment ceremony later in the Spring where you will be welcome at the Omaha National Cemetery. Date to be determined.

Flowers may be sent to Westside Church 15050 W. Dodge Road, Omaha, NE 68154 until an hour prior to the 10:30 service on November 27th.

For those wishing to honor Bob and Iolene's memory and service, please consider memorial gifts or honorariums made to the Open Door Mission of Omaha. Both Bob and Iolene volunteered at the Open Door Mission and supported this cause up until the time of their deaths. The family will continue to support the Open Door Mission with gifts made "In Memory of Bob and Iolene Callahan."