Graveside services will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, April 2, 2012, in Elmwood Memorial Park with Reverend Glenn Ward officiating, directed by Elliott-Hamil Funeral Home, 5701 Highway 277 South, Abilene. The family will receive friends at a visitation at the funeral home one hour before the service.
Mrs. Phillips was born October 8, 1913 in Ardmore, Oklahoma and moved to Jones County, Texas in 1921. She married Allen A. Phillips on January 16, 1932. He preceded her in death in 1995. Mrs. Phillips worked for J.C. Penney Company for twelve years and for Sears Roebuck and Company for eighteen years. She retired from Sears on January 31, 1976. Mrs. Phillips was a member of Southwest Park Baptist Church, where she taught Primary Sunday School classes for two generations of children.
Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Walter Devaney and Cecil Devaney; and two sisters, Agnes Carter and Pauline Cornelius.
Survivors include a daughter, Retha Mae Hester of San Angelo, Texas; two sisters, Jerimene Matthews of Chandler, Arizona and Jamie Ward of Abilene, Texas; one brother, Benney Devaney of Chandler Heights, Arizona; two grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
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