Elias A. Phillips 1877-1948

PHILLIPS, SOPER, GILPATRICK, MASON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 1/23/2012 at 23:21:33

Elias Phillips died Tuesday [November 9, 1948] following an operation for cancer at the Holy Family hospital. He had had an operation a week before and the second the day of his death. He had been in failing health for over a year.

Mr. Phillips had lived in this city about twenty years. His wife was in poor health and they moved to Arizona. The climate there did not agree with him and they returned to this city.

Mr. Phillips was born July 18, 1878 [per cemetery records 1877]. He came from Kansas to Rolfe when a small boy. The family moved to Emmetsburg where the deceased married Minnie Soper. They moved to Spencer before coming to Estherville to make their home.

He is survived by his widow and one son Mervin of Des Moines and two daughters, Mrs. Russell Gilpatrick of Portland, Ore., and Mrs. Myrtle Mason of Phoenix, Ariz.

The funeral services were held from the Sternborg Funeral parlors yesterday the Rev. Lawrence F. Guge officiating. Interment was in the East Side cemetery. (Estherville Enterprise, Estherville, IA, November 11, 1948)