Bob D. Phillips was called to his heavenly home on Sunday, December 6, 2020 at 12:46 am.
Visitation with the family will be on Monday, December 7 at 7 pm at James and Lipford Funeral Home.
A graveside service will be 2 p.m., Tuesday, December 8, at Bethel Baptist cemetery, with Rev. Chester Padgett officiating, James & Lipford Funeral Home in Graceville directing.
Mr. Bob was born on March 3, 1930, in Burkburnett, Texas, the son of Edwin Lafayette Phillips and Addie Mae Cantrell. He lived most of his life in Denison, Texas, graduating from Denison High School in 1948. At the age of 20, he fell in love and married Thelma Dalton on January 17, 1950 in Denison, Texas. The two were married for more than 66 years until Thelma passed away in May of 2016. Mr. Bob was devoted to caring for his wife in their home as she suffered from Alzheimer's the final years of her life. Mr. Bob worked for the Missouri, Kansas Texas railroad for more than 30 years starting off as a lineman and eventually as the head of the communication and signals department. While living in Texas he was an active member and deacon at Calvary Baptist Church and later at Hyde Park Baptist Church. He and his wife moved to Florida in the early 1990s and where they continued to be active in their church and volunteered for mission trips to other states as they worked with a disaster relief team preparing meals in Biloxi Mississippi for a week after a hurricane devastated the city. Mr. Bob, along with his wife also worked for several years promoting and collecting Christmas shoe boxes for Samaritan's Purse.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 66 years, Thelma Mae Phillips, his mother, Addie Reel and three older brothers, Thomas Phillips (wife Katharine), Edwin, and James Phillips (wife Dorothy).
Visitation with the family will be on Monday, December 7 at 7 pm at James and Lipford Funeral Home.
A graveside service will be 2 p.m., Tuesday, December 8, at Bethel Baptist cemetery, with Rev. Chester Padgett officiating, James & Lipford Funeral Home in Graceville directing.
Mr. Bob was born on March 3, 1930, in Burkburnett, Texas, the son of Edwin Lafayette Phillips and Addie Mae Cantrell. He lived most of his life in Denison, Texas, graduating from Denison High School in 1948. At the age of 20, he fell in love and married Thelma Dalton on January 17, 1950 in Denison, Texas. The two were married for more than 66 years until Thelma passed away in May of 2016. Mr. Bob was devoted to caring for his wife in their home as she suffered from Alzheimer's the final years of her life. Mr. Bob worked for the Missouri, Kansas Texas railroad for more than 30 years starting off as a lineman and eventually as the head of the communication and signals department. While living in Texas he was an active member and deacon at Calvary Baptist Church and later at Hyde Park Baptist Church. He and his wife moved to Florida in the early 1990s and where they continued to be active in their church and volunteered for mission trips to other states as they worked with a disaster relief team preparing meals in Biloxi Mississippi for a week after a hurricane devastated the city. Mr. Bob, along with his wife also worked for several years promoting and collecting Christmas shoe boxes for Samaritan's Purse.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 66 years, Thelma Mae Phillips, his mother, Addie Reel and three older brothers, Thomas Phillips (wife Katharine), Edwin, and James Phillips (wife Dorothy).
Bob D. Phillips was called to his heavenly home on Sunday, December 6, 2020 at 12:46 am.
Visitation with the family will be on Monday, December 7 at 7 pm at James and Lipford Funeral Home.
A graveside service will be 2 p.m., Tuesday, December 8, at Bethel Baptist cemetery, with Rev. Chester Padgett officiating, James & Lipford Funeral Home in Graceville directing.
Mr. Bob was born on March 3, 1930, in Burkburnett, Texas, the son of Edwin Lafayette Phillips and Addie Mae Cantrell. He lived most of his life in Denison, Texas, graduating from Denison High School in 1948. At the age of 20, he fell in love and married Thelma Dalton on January 17, 1950 in Denison, Texas. The two were married for more than 66 years until Thelma passed away in May of 2016. Mr. Bob was devoted to caring for his wife in their home as she suffered from Alzheimer's the final years of her life. Mr. Bob worked for the Missouri, Kansas Texas railroad for more than 30 years starting off as a lineman and eventually as the head of the communication and signals department. While living in Texas he was an active member and deacon at Calvary Baptist Church and later at Hyde Park Baptist Church. He and his wife moved to Florida in the early 1990s and where they continued to be active in their church and volunteered for mission trips to other states as they worked with a disaster relief team preparing meals in Biloxi Mississippi for a week after a hurricane devastated the city. Mr. Bob, along with his wife also worked for several years promoting and collecting Christmas shoe boxes for Samaritan's Purse.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 66 years, Thelma Mae Phillips, his mother, Addie Reel and three older brothers, Thomas Phillips (wife Katharine), Edwin, and James Phillips (wife Dorothy).
Visitation with the family will be on Monday, December 7 at 7 pm at James and Lipford Funeral Home.
A graveside service will be 2 p.m., Tuesday, December 8, at Bethel Baptist cemetery, with Rev. Chester Padgett officiating, James & Lipford Funeral Home in Graceville directing.
Mr. Bob was born on March 3, 1930, in Burkburnett, Texas, the son of Edwin Lafayette Phillips and Addie Mae Cantrell. He lived most of his life in Denison, Texas, graduating from Denison High School in 1948. At the age of 20, he fell in love and married Thelma Dalton on January 17, 1950 in Denison, Texas. The two were married for more than 66 years until Thelma passed away in May of 2016. Mr. Bob was devoted to caring for his wife in their home as she suffered from Alzheimer's the final years of her life. Mr. Bob worked for the Missouri, Kansas Texas railroad for more than 30 years starting off as a lineman and eventually as the head of the communication and signals department. While living in Texas he was an active member and deacon at Calvary Baptist Church and later at Hyde Park Baptist Church. He and his wife moved to Florida in the early 1990s and where they continued to be active in their church and volunteered for mission trips to other states as they worked with a disaster relief team preparing meals in Biloxi Mississippi for a week after a hurricane devastated the city. Mr. Bob, along with his wife also worked for several years promoting and collecting Christmas shoe boxes for Samaritan's Purse.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 66 years, Thelma Mae Phillips, his mother, Addie Reel and three older brothers, Thomas Phillips (wife Katharine), Edwin, and James Phillips (wife Dorothy).
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