Callie Mae Fane

Callie Mae Johnson was born on January 2, 1933, to the parents of Marion and Callie May Johnson in Webb, Mississippi. She was the eighth child of 13 thirteen children. God graced her spirit with vigorous determination, beauty, charm, resilience and vision. She accepted Jesus Christ at a very early age.

Callie was a beautiful, passionate, witty and fashionable woman. She met her love John Arthur Fane and later married him on January 15, 1950, in Tippo, Mississippi. To this union six children were born.

In September of 1956, the family migrated to Chicago, Illinois.

Callie was raised in a family of believers in Christ Jesus, but her personal encounter with God started in 1978. She joined the Revelation Church of God in Christ and was baptized. Everyone who encounter her knew who she loved and worshipped her Lord God and his son Jesus Christ. She would praise God every Sunday and anywhere worship music was played. She was a faithful member until death.

Callie had an impeccable work ethic receiving various awards for the employee of the month, the best cook and many others. Her coworkers loved her. She retired from Mount Sinai Hospital after 30 years of service.

Callie had a quiet mystique surrounding the way she manifested herself. Everyone living in the Kedzie Building and her neighorhood noticed it. She was an effervescent light. People would say she was “dressed to the nines”. She was loved by her church members, friends, neighbors and especially her family.

Callie lived a fruitful, joyful, abundant life. On December 7, 2024, at 7:30 p.m., she made her transition into eternity. She was preceded in death by her parents Marion and Callie Mae Johnson, eleven siblings Marion Johnson Jr, Summie Johnson, Virgina Summerlin, Katie Mae Hill, Adam Johnson, Beatrice Fitzpatrick, Edith Mae McCall, Mary Towns, Will Lee Johnson, James (Buddy) Johnson, and Daisey

Pearl Milton. Her cherished husband John A. Fane Sr, three sons Henry L. Johnson, John A. Fane Jr,Thurman L. Fane, one daughter Dora A. Fane and two granddaughters Hamidah Muhammad, Jeanette McDowell, and one grandson Rodney Johnson, two great granddaughters Kenya Muhammad and Zakiyyiah Muhammad.

Callie leaves to entrust her memories, to her sister Able L. Fane, two daugther’s Tauheedah (Ismail S.)

Muhammad and Clarinal Fane, seventeen grandchilden’s, seventy-seven great grandchildren’s, thirty-seven great great grandchildren’s and a host of nephew(s), niece(s) and friends.

Callie we are going to truly miss you! Everything about you, especially the way you praise the Lord.