Bio
Calhoon raised seven children in the Oklahoma Panhandle from 1914 to 1946. A community leader, she followed her youngest children to college and supported them through school before graduating herself, with a degree in Elementary Education, in 1958.
Chosen as the Woman of the Year in Alva, Oklahoma in 1958, he life went from teaching children in a sod house in 1913 to leading adult church classes in the 1980s.
After retiring as a teacher, Calhoon was ordained as a Methodist minister in Wichita, Kansas. She served as a pastor in Mantor, Kansas. She filled the pulpit for seven years before joining the chaplain’s office at Oral Roberts University in the mid-1970s.
