FUNERAL SERVICES ANNOUNCED FOR PARAMEDIC STEPHANIE L. CALLAWAY

[Georgetown, DE] A full-honors funeral, including a procession through the heart of Georgetown, will be held Saturday, June 21, 2008, in remembrance of Stephanie L. Callaway, the Sussex County paramedic who died in the line of duty earlier this week.
A viewing will be held from noon to 3 p.m. inside the Delmarva Christian High School gymnasium, U.S. 9 and Airport Road, in Georgetown. At the conclusion of the viewing, a procession with honor guards and scores of emergency personnel and apparatus will accompany the casket as it is led through town. The procession will pause at the Sussex County Emergency Medical Services headquarters at the County Administrative Offices West Complex, U.S. 113 and U.S. 9 in Georgetown, where Paramedic Callaway’s ‘last alarm’ will be sounded.

The procession will move from there and end at the Carter Partnership Center on the campus of Delaware Technical & Community College, Owens Campus, in G eorgetown. Memorial services will be held there, beginning at approximately 4:30 p.m.
Services will be open to the public.

Media staging areas will be established along the procession route – on Market Street, from Airport Road through The Circle to Old Laurel Road – as well as at the DelTech campus. More information on those staging areas will be provided at a later time. At the family’s request, no indoor photography will be allowed during the viewing or memorial service.

Market Street, from Airport Road to DuPont Boulevard (U.S. 113) will be closed from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday to allow for the procession. The Delaware Department of Transportation will post detours for traffic in and around the Georgetown area.
Those wishing to make donations in memory of Paramedic Callaway are asked to direct their contributions to the following organizations:

• Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary of Sussex County, PO Box 430, Nassau, DE 19969; or
• Delaware Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Sussex Chapter, 22198 DuPont Boulevard, Georgetown, DE 19947.

For more information, please contact Sussex County Chief of Public Information Chip Guy at (302) 448-9077 or Sussex County Emergency Medical Services spokesman Tim Cooper at (302) 236-4325.