Mary Beulah (WILLIAMS) PHILIPS

WILLIAMS, PHILIPS, GALL, HEMINGER, BAKER, EVANS, BRECKENRIDGE, BRIGGS, GOULD

Posted By: Betty Hootman (email)
Date: 9/9/2012 at 17:32:45

Burlington (IA) Hawk Eye on-line
Thursday, 4 March 2010

M. Beulah Philips

M. Beulah Philips, 91, Keosauqua died at 10:15 p.m. Monday, at Van Buren Good Samaritan Society in Keosauqua.

Born October 12, 1918, near Birmingham, she was the daughter of Thomas Irving and Virgie Blanche Gall Williams. On December 25, 1936, she married Doyle J. Philips in Fairfield. He died May 4, 2000.

Mrs. Philips worked at Universal Producing in Fairfield, as a nurses aide at Van Buren County Hospital for several years, as a clerk at Brothers Rexall Drug Store in Keosauqua and helped her husband farm for 45 years. She and her husband retired and moved into Keosauqua in 1990. She attended Birmingham schools.

She was a member of the Center Chapel United Methodist Church and United Methodist Women. She enjoyed painting, ceramics, knitting, sewing, raising exotic animals, including peacocks, and special breeds of cats, dogs, chickens, ducks and geese. She also kept a fish pond.

Survivors include five daughters, Rosalie Heminger of Centerville, Joan Baker of Galesburg, Illinois, Sherry Evans of Omaha, Nebraska, Marilyn "Midge" Breckenridge of McDonough, Georgia, and Linda Briggs of Fairfield; one son Alan Philips of Montgomery, Texas; 20 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; 23 great-great-grandchildren; and one sister, Marjory Gould of Keosauqua.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents, one grandson, three brothers and four sisters.

The funeral for Mrs. Philips will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua with the Rev. Elsa Lawry officiating. Burial will be in Center Chapel Cemetery south of Keosauqua.

The family will receive friends before the service from 9:30 to 10:30 at the funeral home.

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