Ed Callaway, a sportswriter and columnist for the Douglas County
News-Press and onetime film and stage actor, died unexpectedly
Saturday while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park. He was 53
and a resident of Highlands Ranch.
There was cremation.
A memorial service is scheduled for 7 p.m., today, at Horan &
McConaty Funeral Service, 3101 S. Wadsworth Blvd. A graveside
service will be at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, at Evergreen Memorial Park,
26624 N. Turkey Creek Road, Evergreen.
Mr. Callaway was born Aug. 5, 1947, in Baton Rouge, La., the son of
the late Harold M. Callaway and Norma Callaway Deppner.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in English from Arizona State
University in Tempe and his master’s degree in communications from
San Diego State University.
Mr. Callaway had been looking forward to Thursday, when his two
college alma maters would face each other for the first time, and
wrote a recent News-Press sports column on the upcoming game.
Mr. Callaway studied drama in New York City and appeared in
numerous stage productions and motion pictures from the mid-1970s
through about 1985.
“Ed joined the sports staff about six months ago, and at the time,
I wasn’t aware of how lucky we were to have him,” said Bill
Gleason, regional sports editor. “But after time, I began to see
the skills he had. He was a good writer with an amazing command of
the English language.
“His knowledge of sports was great, as was his knowledge of books
and motion pictures,” Gleason said. “In the six months he was with
the newspaper, I got to know him well. But I think we only
scratched the surface of who he truly was.”
Mr. Callaway’s newsroom colleagues considered him not only a quiet,
studious renaissance man in the truest sense, but in his six months
in the newsroom earned the honest reputation as a dry wit, an
erudite raconteur, well versed in many subjects.
Mr. Callaway is survived by his brother, Hal, of Morrison and
numerous aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews.