Cowlitz County WA Archives Obituaries.....Phillips, Grover Cleveland December 20, 2005
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Published in The Daily News on 12/27/05
Grover Cleveland Phillips, 81, of Kelso, passed away December 22, 2005, at an 
adult care facility in Longview.

He was born April 24, 1924, in Astoria, Oregon, to Girden and Irene (Diviny) 
Phillips, and moved to Kelso in 1929.  He was a 1942 graduate of Kelso High 
School and attended Lower Columbia Junior College.  Grover began a banking 
career in 1952 as a teller with Commercial Savings & Loan Association of Kelso, 
eventually becoming branch manager and corporate secretary.  In 1965, 
Commercial merged with Lincoln Mutual Savings Bank, and in 1970, he was named 
as assistant vice president of Lincoln.  He retired in 1986. Grover served as a 
gunner's mate in the United States Navy during World War II.  He served as a 
Kelso city councilman from 1967 to 1973 and was mayor of Kelso from 1969 to 
1973.  He had served as board member of the Cowlitz County Fair, a trustee of 
both the Kelso Elks Lodge and Cowlitz County United Fund, secretary of the 
Kelso Rotary Club, and a member of the Kelso planning Commission.

Survivors include his wife Barbara Phillips at home; son, Jerry Phillips of 
Kelso; daughter, Nancy Spiropulos of Twin Falls, Idaho; two brothers, Lucien 
Phillips of Kelso and Rodney Phillips of Mattawa; grandchildren, Greg and 
Nicholas Spiropulos of Boise, Idaho and Trevor and Corey Phillips of Kelso; and 
great granddaughter Kyra Spiropulos of Boise, Idaho.

A funeral service will be held at Columbia Funeral Chapel,  December 28, 2005 
at 1:00 p.m. with Rev. Robert C. Giles officiating.  Private mausoleum 
entombment will take place at Cowlitz View Memorial Gardens.  Memorial 
contributions can be made to Hospice Care Center at Box 2067, Longview, 
Washington 98632.

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