Callie Angelia Sheffer

Callie Angelia Sheffer (nee Goodin) – October 10, 1958, to June 24, 2023 Angie was born in Dothan, AL as the daughter to Christelle (Scrappy) Hayes Goodin and William Louis Goodin, Sr. She was the third of the three children, but the first and only daughter. At the time of her birth, her father worked as a Station Agent for Southern Airways, which led the family to living in Memphis, TN, Greenville, SC and Fort Walton Beach, FL. But the lure of owning his own fish market led Louis back to his hometown of Valdosta, GA. Angie had two older brothers, William Louis Goodin, Jr. and Irving Anthony (Tony) Goodin, who loved their little sister. If by love you mean being put in a cardboard box and being shot at with BB guns. Fortunately, Angie survived that to be the recipient of a basketball launch, which broke her wrist. Ever the adoring sister, she never turned on the brother that caused that broken wrist. Angie attended elementary and middle school in Valdosta as the Southern Fish & Oyster Company was purchased by her father, first established in 1927. She went on to attend her first two years at Valdosta High School, home of the Wildcats. Quite a tradition within the Goodin family, as at Valdosta High, her father played for the legendary Wright Bazemore and was on his first national championship squad in 1947. Her brother Louie also played for Coach Bazemore on his last national championship team in 1971. Angie’s high school plans changed when Louis and Scrappy decided to leave the urban life of Valdosta and move to the country. Angie then went onto attend the dreaded Lowndes County High School but was able to stay in her high school sorority back at Valdosta High. Those two years until graduation in 1976 were made bearable by Angie’s friendship with Amy Roffe. They dabbled in all sorts of 1975 type temptations, some legal and some suspect. She met and dated some of her first loves, one especially that had hair a bit too long for the shotgun toting brothers. This always made to be very interesting family gatherings, to say the least. Following her older brother Louie’s lead, off to college Angie went to Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, GA. She wanted to avoid having to work another summer hanging tobacco at her grandfather’s farm, or unfolding newspapers at her father’s fish market, or slinging hash as a waitress at the truck stop along I-75 south. (Don’t let her fool ya, she actually loved being a waitress, especially for the tips!) Angie went onto receive an associate degree in Legal Secretarial Science in the summer of 1978. After graduating from college, she went back to waitressing at the truck stop…. but she was not as excited about it this go round. Angie began hearing about something called the Civil Service Exam. She was told that if she does well on it, she could land a nice job with a governmental agency. When Angie put her mind to something, she accomplishes it twice over. After passing the exam, she applied to the Bureau of Prisons. She had to drive to Atlanta to be interviewed and supposedly did terrible on all secretarial skill tests. Yet, someone knew potential (or that Angie was a beautiful spitfire) and was hired to work anyway as the Unit Secretary at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta. What a dynamo that Angie became. She was spurred on by her new best friend, also hired the same day, Michelle Clower, and the high school foolishness returned with this friendship and remained for years. As new jobs came open, Angie applied, and moved up to Legal Secretary for the Regional Attorney. She then went to Paralegal School and aced the program to become the Paralegal to the Regional Attorney. She then went onto to be the Executive Assistant to the Warden back at the U.S. Penitentiary, then Executive Assistant to the Regional Director at the Southeast Regional offices in Atlanta. Angie was one of the few individuals whose ability to get things done timely and correctly, gave her the ability to spend her entire career in the Atlanta area. She worked with multiple people (you know who you are) who worked for her, mentors, bosses, other co-workers, all who became lifelong cherished friends. Then one night, Angie was hanging out with Lynn Stephens at some out-of-the-way bar in Hapeville, GA. There, some guy said something way too loud at the bar when the music stopped playing, and well, Dan, future husband appeared. Not exactly the long-haired version of past beaus, but he did fit in well later as a target of her father’s teasing. Dan and Angie bought their first home together in Jonesboro, GA in 1983. She almost ran out after they moved in, but thanks to a save from Michelle, they got married the next day. She cried for a week but Angie always said “I don’t do change well.” She got used to the idea of having Dan around forever and he stuck around, for over 40 years. Together, their adventures continued. From rafting on the Colorado River, watching Broadway musicals in New York City, attending Steeplechase Races in Camden, SC, attending WAY too many NASCAR Races (in Angie’s opinion), becoming Atlanta Falcons season ticket holders, attending Clemson football games, touring Alcatraz Island for a special BOP tour in California, then onto Napa Valley and Sonoma. For some reason, either because of the Sonoma atmosphere or celebrating Evander Holyfield winning over Mike Tyson, Angie began feeling weird. Maybe, just maybe, to her dismay, she’s pregnant. She cried for a week, again, with another change. In February 1993, Dan and Angie bought a new home in Fayetteville, GA to raise their daughter. Callie Christelle was born 2 weeks after they moved in, and Angie said that “Callie wanted to see what all the commotion was about.” So, motherhood began, and Angie was bound and determined to be the best mother (warden, helicopter parent, guide, etc.) that she could be to her favorite daughter. Callie grew up as a very well mannered, polite, and grateful child. She grew up at the new house in Fayetteville and their adventures continued, now with a little extra. From going to Disney World, Ringling Brothers Circus, Universal Studios, Yellowstone National Park, way too many Caribbean cruises to count, river rafting, cave crawling in TN, attending the EMMY’s and Rodeo Drive in LA, trips down to Granny’s, and spending way too many weekends at softball tournaments, Angie planned and loved them all. Unfortunately, Angie lost her dear father, Louis, in March 2002 after spending as much time as possible, providing more than exemplary caregiving, and honor that any daughter could provide. Her brother, Tony, preceded Angie when he succumbed to childhood diabetes in 2016, with Angie providing the same type of exemplary caregiving and honor that any sister could provide. Angie, herself, fought and battled breast cancer during this time. She endured chemotherapy and further treatment to finally be in remission after almost 2 years of treatment. Her fierce attitude and spirit was successful in beating back the dreaded disease. Angie was proud that she found and applied Callie to the University of Louisiana, for a degree in Criminal Justice. (Like mother, like daughter.) They began to settle into their empty nest, waiting for Callie to complete her education and return. When Callie decided to stay in Louisiana after graduation, off Dan and Angie went to relocate to Gulf Shores, AL, where they happily resided and made their new home with all of mom’s antiques in toe. Angie could always make any house into a home. Angie peacefully made the transition with her close family hugging and loving on her early in the morning of June 24, 2023. She is out of pain and now able to be with her daddy, brother, and her best friend Michelle, whose daughter, Gaylatia Clower, wrote “And God only knows what the two of them are up to”. Angie is survived by her mother, Christelle “Scrappy” Goodin, her rock and love of her life, Dan Sheffer, cherished child, Callie Spinosa, her deeply loved grandson and his dad, Wyatt Paul and Drew Spinosa, her brother and his wife, Louie and Susan Goodin, as well as a host of nephews, nieces, extended family, dear friends, co-workers and acquaintances. In lieu of flowers, Angie would like one and all to have yourself a dirty martini, with Tito’s of course. Raise a glass and toast to the life that she lived, the life you are going to live, and all the adventures you will experience because she will want to hear all the scoop when she sees you later. Arrangements have been entrusted to Wolfe-Bayview Funeral Home & Crematory of Fairhope, AL, and a private wake will be held, as was Angie’s wish, after her cremation. A future celebratory gathering is being planned in her hometown of Valdosta at Scrappy’s home near Naylor around the time of Angie’s birthday in October 2023. ARRANGEMENTS BY WOLFE-BAYVIEW FUNERAL HOMES & CREMATORY, INC. 19698 GREENO RD. FAIRHOPE AL. 36532 (251) 990-7775 www.wolfefuneral