SOUTHERN HERITAGE FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY
1000 HODGESVILLE ROAD
DOTHAN, ALABAMA 36301
334-702-1712
Callie Sue Monday, a resident of Dothan, died Saturday, July 19, 2025 at Southeast Health Medical Center following a brief illness. She was 85.
Funeral services for Callie Sue will be held at Timbers Drive Church (First Free Will Baptist) at 11 AM Wednesday, July 23, 2025 with Pastor Josh Horton officiating. Burial will follow in Memory Hill cemetery. The family will receive friends from 10 AM until 10:45 AM prior to the services at the church.
Callie Sue was born in Browns Crossroads, Alabama to Thomas E. and Audrey Louise Fleming Long. She was raised on a farm in Seminole County, Georgia graduating from Seminole County High School in 1957. She was a member of the basketball team and played the clarinet in the band. She continued her education in Albany, Georgia, and after finishing Business College she started a life-long career in bookkeeping at Albany Air Service. She truly enjoyed her work and all the fascinating people she met traveling through the airport. She would commute to work on the company car and was told she was so short that the car appeared to be driving itself!
Callie Sue met, fell in love with, and married her life-long partner in adventure, Delmer Monday, in 1958. They moved from Georgia to Fort Ord, Monterey Bay, California for the start of Delmer’s military career. Upon completion of that tour, they moved to Dothan, Al. She then worked for Sears & Roebuck until the birth of their baby girl. Callie Sue returned to work with the Alfred Saliba Corporation for many years, then finished out her career at the WASCO Corporation. Our family wants to say a very special thanks to the Alfred Saliba and John Watson families for their love and support.
Callie Sue had many talents that she blessed her family and friends with: a photographic memory of numbers, quick wit, beautiful smile, and best of all, her cooking. Callie Sue shared that she had always been told she was beautiful too. Delmer and Callie Sue enjoyed a large garden together, growing wild black berries, figs and raised livestock to provide the family with very fresh meals. Cooking, canning, baking, and sweet tea – there truly was no end. Callie Sue and Delmer raised three children, instilling the virtues of hard work, truthfulness, and finance management (and never sparing the rod to bring home those values). They entertained family and friends at their home, lake house and beach house, enjoying many great meals and memories. Callie Sue was a long and very proud member of Timbers Drive (First Free Will Baptist Church of Dothan). It cannot be measured how much she loved and cherished God, her church and her church family.
Callie Sue is preceded in death by her husband Delmer Monday, Son Jeffery Alan Monday, and adopted son Randy Mathis. Her parents Tom and Louise Long, Brother Thomas and his wife Jean Long.
She is survived by children Nicholas Mark and Amy Monday, Christina Louise Bell; adopted children Barbra Mathis Taylor, Tim and Penny Stewart; grandchildren Casey and Regan Bell, Shelby and Cris Copley, Mason Monday and Rachel Hilarides, Carly Ethridge, Cole Ethridge; Great-grandchildren Leah, Forrest, Sadie and Caleb Bell, Skylar Copley; Siblings Annie Carol and Howard Jones, Patsy Paulk and Roy Townsend, Catherine and Delwyn Corbitt and Talmadge Long.
We will miss you Mama, “I love you Everyday.”
