Florida Elementary and graduated from Booker T. Washington School under Principal Blair T. Hunt, who remembered her well when her daughter, Inez, later attended there. After high school, she returned to Desoto County briefly to teach school. She worked as a waitress and as a shampoo girl in a white beauty shop in downtown Memphis.
She later attended cosmetology school – Superior Poro Beauty School under the tutelage of Madame P.J. Hampton – while her oldest daughter attended elementary school. They often walked to school together as her cosmetology school was near the elementary school. Callie received her Cosmetology license in 1945.
A phenomenal woman, she practiced until she was 101 years of age and COVID quarantine forced her to retire. She was an entrepreneur, with a beauty shop in her home for many years. In the ‘60s and ‘70s she operated a very successful multi-chair hair salon, with a manicurist and a successful retail operation. She was the oldest working beautician in the state of Tennessee.
Rest well Sister.