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A woman of keen intellect, clever business acumen, Miss Callie
Metzger was at one time owner of or representing owners of many
building sites in the city. Associated with Mr. G. M. Magill in the
real business here for many years and continuing in that business
under the name of Magill Land Company for years after Mr. Magill’s
death, Miss Metzger became one of the best of business women. She
saw Bay City and the Gulf Coast of Texas grow was one of the
founders of the city back before the turn of the century.
Stricken many years with a lung disease she was forced to retire
from active participation in her business, and remain at her
residence most of the time. This did not prevent her from continuing
her interest in business and political affairs, in which she was a
most astute member, watching developments from the
sideline, but always
genuinely interested and outspoken at all times of her views.
She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Della R. Milligan of Denver,
three nieces, Miss Helen Rose Barry, Beaumont, Mrs. Kitty
Ann
Dark, Alexander City,
Alabama: Mrs. Lois Eason, Memphis, Tenn.; 2 nephews, David Lawrence,
Denver; Harvey Lawrence, Columbus City, Indiana.
Services will be from First Presbyterian Church at 2 p. m. Saturday
with Rev. Tom Dyal officiating. Services will be under direction of
Taylor Bros. Funeral Home. Interment will be in Cedarvale Cemetery. Pallbearers are Wade Ashcraft, T. J. Poole, Rowland Rugeley, J. B. Cookenboo, Carl Hiltpold and Esker McDonald.
Daily Tribune,
October 25, 1957 |
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She also was a public school teacher. She was one of the First High School Class to be graduated from the Standardized High School Course offered in the Churubusco Schools. She attended a highly specialized kindergarten training school at Logansport, Indiana. But she disliked teaching. She went to Valparaiso Normal & Business College and took a business course. She then took a position in the office of the Brown Lumber Co. at Mentone, Indiana. She held this, until she changed to accept a position in the McGill Land Co. in Bay City, Texas. She now operates her own office at Bay City as Agent for Real Estate, Insurance, and Oil Companies. She buys and rehabilitates farms. She had ownership of several oil wells. She did not marry. She adheres to the Presbyterian Church.
A History of the Nickey Family in America,
1700 A. D. - 1940 A. D., By Ella Metsker Milligan, Denver, Colorado,
1940, pp 124-125 |
