Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Rev. Daniel Phillips, Jr.
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   PHILLIPS
   The Rev. Daniel PHILLIPS, Jr., was born June 5, 1925, in McIntosh
   County. He died February 18 1990, at the Community Hospital Lakeview
   in Eufaula. Prayer services were held February 19 at the Little Coweta
   Indian Baptist Church, where he was a member, with funeral services
   conducted February 10, also at the church. Rev. George JESSE and Rev.
   J.B. FISH officiated the service. Pallbearers were Jack BEDFORD,
   Daniel DEERE, Kenneth LOMA, Michael DEERE, Adam JONES, Jr., and Sonny
   BARNETT. John KELLEY was honorary pallbearer. Graveside services were
   held in the Greenwood Cemetery conducted by the Eufaula VFW Post 8798,
   with interment following.
   He was an Army veteran and POW survivor of World War II. He served as
   a missionary to the Creek Indian churches and was a member of the DAV
   and the Eufaula VFW Post 8798. He had been a resident of in Stedham.
   He was the son of Daniel and Mandy Hill PHILLIPS, Sr., both deceased.
   He was married to Mina HARJO in Columbus, KS, June 4, 1974. She
   survives. He was also survived by his four daughters, Ramona BEDFORD
   and Jena LOMA, both of Eufaula, and Twanna Sue DEERE and Amanda
   MIDDLETON, both of Stidham; two brothers, Birdcreek PHILLIIPS and
   Franklin D. PHILLIPS, both of Eufaula; a sister, Mildred KETCHISHAWNO
   of Shawnee; six grandchildren; and an aunt, Emma LEWIS of Eufaula.