Philip Robbins Broyhill passed away Saturday, March 1, 2014. He was born May 16, 1956, in Lenoir, North Carolina. He graduated from the Asheville School, attended Duke University and Wake Forest University, and graduated from Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He also completed rigorous wilderness training in his youth at the National Outdoor Leadership School in Wyoming.
Philip was an accomplished, award -winning, and prolific artist. He worked and exhibited in a number of studios in the Boston area over the last 30 years, and was constantly striving to reach his maximum creative potential through his paintings and pencil sketches. One of his paintings was selected for an award by the State of Massachusetts. He had recently moved to North Carolina where he was beginning to make his presence known in the artistic community.
In addition to his artistic gifts, Phil was blessed with a gentle and compassionate nature. He was deeply spiritual, and tried to see only good in everyone he met. He volunteered as a reader to the blind, and completed certification as a peer counselor. Philip was an avid reader and took a great interest in current events and history and served on the Board of WestBridge Community Services of Boston for a number of years.
He is survived by his parents, James T. and Louise R. Broyhill, a sister, Marilyn Broyhill Beach and her husband Robert T. Beach, a brother, J. Edgar Broyhill and his wife Melanie P. Broyhill, six nieces and nephews, and two great nephews.
The family will receive friends in at Pendry’s Funeral Home (522 Wilkesboro Blvd SE, Lenoir, NC ) on Saturday, March 8 from 10-11:30 AM followed by a private burial service at Little Rock Baptist Church (248 Little Rock Church Road) in Boomer, NC at Noon.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Philip Robbins Broyhill Memorial Fund at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Development office, Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC
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