Obit of Simon "Bud" Phillips - Bryan County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips    genephillips@usa.net
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SIMON "BUD" PHILLIPS
From the Durant Daily Democrat. 

Graveside military services were at 10 am today at Highland Cemetery 
for Simon "Bud" Phillips, 84, Durant, who died Monday Sept 14, 1998 
in Calera Manor Nursing Home. The Rev Charles Williams officiated. 
Mr Phillips was born March 9, 1914 in Idabel to Benjamin and Ida 
Peters Phillips. 
He worked at Durant Milling Company. He was a life member of the 
DAV Post 25, VFW Post 3916 and was a veteran sergeant of WWII where 
he served in the Army in the European Theatre. He attended school 
in Idabel. Mr Phillips married Helen Dale Goodwon Phillips on Dec 
24, 1945 in Durant. 
He was preceded in death by hs parents, three sisters and three 
brothers. Survivors includ his wife Helen; sons, Danny, Durant 
and Wayne and his wife Sherry, Hartshorne; four grandchildren; 
seven great-granchildren; two neices; and one nephew. Brown's 
Durant Funeral Home handled the arrangements.