Obituaries: J. I. Phillips, 1926, Winn Parish, LA
Submitter: Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
Source: Winnfield News-American
Date: August 20, 1926
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J. I. Phillips Dies AT His Home After Continued Illness

For More Than Forty Years Has Been A Consistent Member of the Christian Church

J. I. Phillips died at his home in Winnfield Friday evening August 13th, after
an illness of several weeks.

For many years Mr. Phillips has been an honored citizen of our city where he
has been engaged in the photography business.

He was born at Levaon, Kentucky September 16th, 1864, and while he was still
quite young his parents moved to Rolls County, Missouri, where he was left
motherless at the age of four.  After growing into young manhood he spent six
years in Mexico and several years in the western United States.  He married
Miss Mattie Barker of New Mexico and several years ago he and his splendid
family moved to our city.

For over forty years Mr. Phillips was a faithful member of the Christian
Church.  He was an honorable, upright Christian gentleman whose devotion to
his church was both personal and financial.  He was a member of the official
board of the local Christian Church in which position he held the office of an
elder.  The church has suffered a severe loss in his death and has left a
vacant place in their midst that will ever be felt by all.

His unlimited Christian faith, his genial disposition, and his unselfish
service both to God and mankind endeared him to all who knew him.

Funeral services were held at the Christian Church Saturday afternoon where a
crowded house attested the esteem in which he was held.  Many were the
tributes of love and honor paid him who was held so high in the love of his
fellowman.  Rev. J. E. Pickering, pastor of the local Christian Church,
delivered the funeral sermon in which he paid tribute to the man who lives and
dies a Christian, using as his text: "He dies unto the Lord."  Rev. P. M.
Caraway, pastor of the Methodist Church, assisted in the services.

Truly a good Christian, a good husband, a good father, and a good neighbor has
gone to his reward, leaving his wife and five children: John, now in China,
Grace, Robert, Rodney, and Ross, all of whom are at home, two sisters, Mrs.
E. Littrell and Miss Agnes Phillips, and hosts of sorrowing friends to mourn
his passing.