Rogers Co. Obit for: James Ray "Jim" Phillips
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Submitted to the Rogers County Oklahoma Archives 
Date: 7/01/2002 by: Bill Cook, wcook14024@aol.com
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6/12/2002

James Ray "Jim" Phillips

Services for Jim Phillips will be 2 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2002 at the First Baptist Church in Claremore. 
Rev. Sam Nichols will officiate. Burial will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery under the direction of Rice 
Funeral Service. Friends may visit at the funeral home until 8 p.m. Wednesday with the family receiving 
visitors from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday and from 8-11 a.m. on Thursday.

Jim passed away on Monday, June 10, 2002. He was 59.

Born in Tahlequah on May 13, 1943 to Raymond and Alza Farmer Phillips, Jim was reared and educated 
in Tahlequah and Wilburton. 

He graduated from Wilburton High School and went on to junior college there also. 

In February of 1964, Sharon Dianne Neel sang her way into his heart at a Valentine's Day party and she 
and Jim were married on May 15, 1964 in Wagoner. Jim's father, a Baptist minister, performed the 
ceremony.

The young couple made their first home for two and a half years in the Chicago area, where Jim was 
employed in the plastics industry. 

Moving back to Oklahoma, to Claremore, he was next employed by McDonnell-Douglas for five years 
before starting his own landscaping and grading business and Phillips Nursery, which he ran for 18 years. 

He loved his work - planting and watching things grow.

Jim was a member of the Rogers County Homebuilders Association and the Tulsa Bass Club and was for 
many years active in local Baptist congregations where he taught Sunday School and sang in the choir.

A wonderful father, Jim enjoyed his daughters, their husbands who were like sons to him, and his precious 
granddaughter. He was their hero. He always found the best in others and never lost his sense of humor. 
He was generous, forgiving and big-hearted.

Jim is survived by the family that he loved so much: his wife Sharon, of their home in Claremore; daughters 
and "sons," Lisa Keeler and husband Terry, and Jami Phipps and husband T.J., all of Claremore; 
granddaughter Paige Phipps of Claremore; mother, Alza Phillips of Claremore; father- and mother-in-law, 
Ellis and Colleen Neel of Wagoner; brother, Gary Phillips of Wagoner; sisters, "Pat" Patricia Bruner and 
husband Dwayne of Stilwell, and Barbara Coleman and husband Harold of Westville; and his nieces and 
nephews and other extended family.

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