Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Phillips, William A., 1982 

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WILLIAM ALEXANDER PHILLIPS

   FRANKLIN - A funeral service for William Alexander Phillips, 68, was held 
Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in High Street United Methodist Church by the Rev. Jeremy 
Galloway.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, with Masonic rites accorded 
by Franklin Masonic Lodge 151. Wright Funeral Home as in charge.

   Pallbearers were: W.H. Goodwin, George Henson Parker, William R. Butler 
Jr., Glen Mabe, John Abernathy, Wesley Wills, Edward L. Felton, Bill Booth and 
William T. Atkinson, Jr.

   Phillips died Friday in Southampton Memorial Hospital.

   A native of Athens, Ga., and former resident of Tappahannock, he was the 
husband of Ruth Olliff Phillips.

   He was a retired area conservationist of the Federal Soil Conservation 
Service of the Department of Agriculture.  He was a member of High Street 
United Methodist Church, where he served on the Administrative Board and was 
a Sunday School teacher; Arlington Masonic Lodge 102; Millers Tavern; and 
Portsmouth Scottish Rite Bodies. He was a graduate of the University of 
Georgia’s School of Foresty and was an Army Major during World War II.

   Other survivors include a daughter, Allene P. Atkinson, and two sons, 
Stephen K. Phillips and William A. Phillips Jr., of Franklin; two sisters, 
Eva P. Campbell of Kingsport, Tenn., and Blanche P. Eberhart of Athens; a 
brother, Keely N. Phillips of Ocilla, Ga.; and four grandchildren.


William Alexander "Red" PHILLIPS, retired area Federal Soil conservationist, 
Army veteran of WW-II, 
Athens, GA native, formerly of Tappahannock, d. 1 Jan 1982, age 68, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section C, Plot 69*), Franklin, 
   3 Jan 1982, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 7, 1982, p. 11A 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 


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