Wilda Clara (Hendricks) STEPP PHILLIPS

HENDRICKS, PHILLIPS, MYERS, STEPP, GOATER, JONES, PETERS, HAINES

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/29/2006 at 01:31:54

FOREST CITY - Wilda Clara (Hendricks) Phillips of the Good Samaritan Center in Forest City, passed away Saturday (Jan. 3, 2004) surrounded by her family. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the North McDonald family cemetery near Winterset.

Wilda Clara Hendricks was born Sept. 27, 1926, in Winterset, to Blanche (Myers) and Oliver Hendricks. Wilda graduated from Winterset High School in 1944. Upon graduation, Wilda worked in Des Moines for a bank and later in sales. In 1952, she married James W. Stepp of Des Moines. Three children were born to that union, Cynthia, Jamie and Steven Stepp. In 1968, Wilda married Orville Glen Phillips of Eagle Grove, where she devoted her life to family and church. Wilda could often be found teaching adult and teen Sunday School at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church and was an active member of her congregation. She volunteered her service as chairperson for Meals on Wheels as well as for other community service organizations. Wilda enjoyed cooking and antiquing, but most of all her family. She later moved to Forest City, to be near her grandchildren. Wilda was a wonderful mother and grandmother and was a "second mom" to countless others, and always lived her life with quiet humility and integrity toward others. She will be dearly missed by her family and friends.

She is survived by two sisters, Laona (Hendricks) Goater, and Margaret (Hendricks) Jones, both of Winterset; daughter, Cynthia (Stepp) Peters and her husband, Kim, of Fertile; her sons, Jamie and his wife, Dawn Stepp, of Leland, and Steve Stepp of Des Moines; five grandchildren, Anne Peters, Jamie, Mackenzie, Doug and Noah Stepp. Preceding Wilda in death were her husbands, James Stepp and Glen Phillips; her parents, Blanche and Oliver; three brothers, William, Walter, and Ralph Hendricks; and one sister, Ethel (Hendricks) Haines. Those wishing to extend memorials to Wilda, may direct them to the Good Samaritan Center, 606 South Seventh Street, Forest City, IA 50436, and expressions of sympathy in care of the family, to her daughter, Cynthia Peters, P.O. Box 14, Forest City, IA 50436. Petersen-Lund Funeral Home.

Mason City Globe Gazette
January 6, 2004