Obit of Phillips, Dovie Swinney (p412) - Cotton County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 29 Oct 2004 Return to Cotton County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cotton/cotton.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== :Devol Cemetery--Devol OK Duncan Banner 14 Apr 2002 Dovie Swinney Phillips WALTERS — Service for Dovie Swinney Phillips, 78, of Waurika will be at 1 p.m. Monday in the Hart-Wyatt Funeral Home Chapel in Walters. The Rev. Cheryl Benson will officiate. Burial will be in Devol Cemetery in Devol. Dovie (Pilgrim) Swinney Phillips was born to James Monroe and Clifford (Lollis) Pilgrim on Oct. 27, 1923 in Madill. She departed this life on April 11, 2002, in Duncan at the age of 78 years, 5 months and 14 days. Dovie grew up in Madill where she eventually married Edward Williamson Swinney on Oct. 5, 1940. In 1942, they moved to Cotton County, living in the Randlett and Devol area. He preceded her in death on Sept. 6, 1964. On July 5, 1967, she married Roy Paul Phillips, and they made their home in Waurika for many years. He preceded her in death in 1998. She was also preceded by a brother, Sid Pack; two sisters, Burnice Savage and Lela Hambrick; as well as her daughter, Letha Joan Looney; and two infant grandchildren, Pamela Creed and Teddy Ray Looney. Through the years Dovie worked as a homemaker and helped on the farm and then later worked for Dean’s Drapery Company. She also worked for Burns Security at the Tosco Refinery. She was a member of the Assembly of God Church in Randlett and enjoyed fishing, working in her flower beds, embroidery and visiting with family and friends. Survivors include five daughters, Betty Jean Looney and her husband, Chester, Biddy Jane Looney and her husband, Lester, Barbara Louise Creed and Judy Fay Burleson and her husband, Randy, all of Randlett, and Karen Gail McNair and her husband, Tommy, of Duncan; two brothers, Olden Pilgrim of Duncan and Alton Pilgrim of Texas; a sister, Oniva Hambrick of Ardmore; 20 grandchildren;25 great-grandchildren; and other relatives and many friends. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Cotton County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cotton/cotton.htm