Phoebe Barton McCallum

Mrs. Phoebe Ellen Barton McCallum, 97, of Fort Mill, died Friday, September 30, 2016, at Park Pointe in Rock Hill.A memorial service will be at 3:30 p.m. Monday, October 3, 2016 at St. John’s United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Karen H. Radcliffe and Chaplain Randy Wright officiating. The family will receive friends following the service.Phoebe was well known as the typing teacher at Fort Mil High School for 25 years (1955-1980). Along with her husband, Harold M. (“Mac”) McCallum, the former principal of the Fort Mill Junior High School, she was dedicated to the Fort Mill schools and was proud that she never missed a day of teaching.In 1992, former students honored them by forming the Harold & Phoebe McCallum Scholarship Fund. Each year the McCallum Fund provides scholarships to two graduates of Fort Mill’s high schools.Born in Tigerville, S.C., Phoebe was a daughter of the late Hovey Goodlett Barton and Annie Ethel McKinney Barton. She graduated from Mountain View High School in 1935 and from Winthrop University in 1939. Phoebe taught business courses at Greenville, Hickory Grove, York and Chester before settling in Fort Mill. During her years at Fort Mill High she was the advisor for the school newspaper, The Loudspeaker.Phoebe married Harold on June 28, 1942. They had two children, Frances McCallum (Paul) Kritzer of Waukesha, Wisconsin, and Hugh Barton McCallum of Marina del Rey, California. She was a longtime member of St. John’s United Methodist Church, where she was the pianist for her Adult Sunday School Class and treasurer of her Women’s Circle. Phoebe was a proud member of the Women’s Club of Fort Mill for more than 50 years, where for 15 years she organized the annual bridge benefit, which raised thousands of dollars for students.Phoebe was a lifetime member of the Fort Mill Chamber of Commerce and was named a Volunteer of the Year. She was a member of the Kanawah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and served as Chair of the Good Citizenship Award Committee and published the annual DAR yearbook. She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma (educational sorority).In addition to her children, she is survived by two granddaughters, Caroline (Dan) Hara of Riverside, Illinois, and Erica (Ed) Han of Washington, D.C., and three great-grandchildren, Rory, Allegra and John. She was preceded in death by her husband after 66 years of marriage.Memorial contributions may be made to the McCallum Scholarship Fund, c/o The Foundation for Fort Mill Schools, P.O. Box 476, Fort Mill, SC 29716, or to St. John’s United Methodist Church, 130 Tom Hall Street, P.O. Box 1298, Fort Mill, SC 29716.Read Obituary