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Services are planned Tuesday for an Easley High School graduate killed May 15 while posted to Army duty in Georgia.

Evan Robert Callahan, a 2012 Easley graduate, was a second lieutenant assigned to Fort Benning. Details about his death were not immediately available, and attempts to reach Fort Benning and Department of Defense officials for further comments were not successful.

The son of Kevin Flanagan and Jacqueline Jones Callahan of Pickens was active in ROTC and cross country after transferring to Easley as a sophomore.

“He was a great kid and it was really hard to hear about this,” said Chief Petty Officer Mark Stauder, Callahan's ROTC adviser at Easley. “He was a very good student and very conscientious about his grades and everything else he did, but he liked to have fun too. He always had a smile on his face when you’d see him; I know that’s what people always say in times like this, but it was true with Evan.”

Callahan went first to the Citadel after high school, Stauder said, then switched to the University of South Carolina, where he received a Bachelors’ degree in English and philosophy in 2016.

Survivors include his parents, sisters Kate Elizabeth Callahan and Kelli Lauren Callahan, also of Pickens, and several grandparents.

The family will receive friends at Dillard Funeral Home in Pickens on Tuesday from 1 to 2:45 p.m., and funeral services will follow in the funeral home chapel at 3 p.m., with The Reverend Don Mc­Queen officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow in the Veteran’s Garden of Hillcrest Memorial Park.