Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Mexia Daily News - Feb. 17, 2005 edition

Erma Dean (Morgan) Phillips

Funeral services for Mrs. Erma Dean Phillips, 72, of Teague, will be Saturday
afternoon at 1 o'clock in First Baptist Church of Mexia, 501 East Carthage
Street. Officiating will be the Reverends Carl Edd Morgan of Right Way Church
of Dallas and Vernon Busby of Union Primitive Baptist Church of Teague. Burial
will be in Rocky Branch Cemetery of Wortham. Moore's Angelic Funeral Home of
Teague is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Phillips, a Home Health Care worker and cook at Teague Nursing Home, was a
member of Rocky Branch PBC-Wortham. She formerly resided in Wortham, and was
born in Freestone County on Sept. 20, 1932. Mrs. Phillips died Thursday, Feb.
10, in Medical City at Dallas.

Surviving are five sons, Carl Edd Morgan and wife Janice of Dallas, Rodney
Wadley of Dallas, James Herbert Wadley of Teague, John Albert Phillips and wife
Doris of Dallas, and Theodore Phillips and wife Linda of Mexia; a brother,
James Riley Morgan; five sisters, Maggie McClendon, Tennie N. Ross and husband
Royell and Lorene Holley and husband Ezell, all of Dallas, Bernice Bates and
Clara Murphy, both of Oakland, California; an aunt, Minnie Allen; 12
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews, and other
relatives and friends.

Pallbearers are David Morgan, Steven Morgan, Kevin Morgan, Michael Morgan,
Ronnie Morgan, Jr., J'Merson Morgan and Rayford Ross.