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Mary ‘Lois’ Phillips entered this life November 18, 1919 to Thomas Dee
and Minnie Maudella (Bates) Nix in Tuskahoma, Oklahoma. She entered
into rest April 28, 2008 in Sulphur, Oklahoma at the age of 88 years.
Lois graduated from Tuskahoma High School. She married Jewel Phillips in
Tuskahoma. They moved to California in 1942. She worked as a secretary
at the Coachella Valley School District, Covalda Date Plant. Lois and
her husband, Jewel, moved back to Oklahoma in 1972. They liked Sulphur
and decided to make Sulphur home.
Lois was a caregiver; she raised her brother, Russell, and sister, Jean,
after their mother died. She also cared for all her family after coming
back to Oklahoma. She loved people. She was a member of the First
Baptist Church in Sulphur and has taught Sunday school of over sixty
years. in 1942.
She was preceded by her husband, Jewel; her parents, Thomas and Maud
Nix; two sisters, Marie Howdeshell and Flora Jean Armstrong; and one
brother, Tom Nix. She is survived by one brother, Russell Nix and wife,
Weda, of Indio, California; four nephews, Rodney Nix and wife, Karen, of
Ojai, California, Kim Nix of Ventura, California, Garvin Nix and wife,
Jo Ann, of Oklahoma City, and Bryon Nix of Indio, California; and three
nieces, Robin Hove and husband, Brant, of Ventura, California, La Juana
Nix of Indio, California, and Cynthia Nelson and husband, Don, of
Madera, California. |
Pallbearers: Butch Caldwell, Randy Caldwell, Butch
Hill, Keith Woodell,
Marvin McCracken, Terry Dobson
Service:
2:00 PM, Saturday, May 3, 2008,
First Baptist Church, Sulphur, Oklahoma
Interment:
Oaklawn Cemetery, Sulphur, Oklahoma |
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