G. Wendell Phillips, 62, was suddenly stricken with a heart attack at work yesterday morning and died a half-hour later at 10:30 a.m., at St. Joseph's hospital.
He was the manager and buyer of the men's department at Gregson's Shoe Store. He had recently been ill for five days with influenza but had returned to work Monday.Mr. Phillips was well-known at Lewiston, where he had lived for the last 49 years. For 20 years, from 1922 to 1942, he had the agency here for the New York Life Insurance Co. His office was at the Brier Building.Mr. Phillips was born March 15, 1889, at Sprague, Wash., one of five sons and two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Phillips.In 1903, the family moved to Lewiston where he was graduated from Lewiston high school in 1909. He attended the University of Idaho, Moscow, for two years. He was affiliated with Phi Delta Theta, a social fraternity.On June 19, 1913, he was married to Lois Starr Rowley, his sweetheart from high school and college days. Almost every weekend of every fishing since the couple has packed gear and tackle and departed for the Lochsa and Selway areas to fish. Mr. Phillip's first position here was with the Hastings Shoe Store and he was later employed at the R. C. Beach department store before starting his insurance agency. He was the first New York Insurance agent in the Northwest to attain membership in the $200,000 club for agentsselling that amount of insurance. He retired but several years later started working at Gregson's.Pioneered In ScoutingHe helped to inaugurate the Boy Scout organization here during World War I, was a member of Knights of Pythias, the Lewiston Elks Lodge and the Masonic Lodge, AF&AM, No. 10. He was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientists, at Lewiston, where he was an usher for many years.Survivors include his wife at the family home, 223 26th St.; two daughters, Mrs. Lee Habel of Spokane and Mrs. O.T. Nelson of Walla Walla; and son, Harry Phillips of Coeur d'Alene. Two other sons, Lt. Rex Phillips and Lt. James Austin Phillips, were killed during World War II.Other survivors are four brothers, Dr. Harry T. Phillips, who recently moved to Boise from Lewiston.; Dr. Frank Phillips, Boise; Dr. Roy Phillips, Glendale, Calif., and Fred Phillips, Seattle; two sisters, Mrs. Harold Thomas, Kooskia, and Mrs. Hugh Dresser, Lewiston and 11 grandchildren.Lewiston Tribune Saturday, February 09, 1952
He was the manager and buyer of the men's department at Gregson's Shoe Store. He had recently been ill for five days with influenza but had returned to work Monday.Mr. Phillips was well-known at Lewiston, where he had lived for the last 49 years. For 20 years, from 1922 to 1942, he had the agency here for the New York Life Insurance Co. His office was at the Brier Building.Mr. Phillips was born March 15, 1889, at Sprague, Wash., one of five sons and two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Phillips.In 1903, the family moved to Lewiston where he was graduated from Lewiston high school in 1909. He attended the University of Idaho, Moscow, for two years. He was affiliated with Phi Delta Theta, a social fraternity.On June 19, 1913, he was married to Lois Starr Rowley, his sweetheart from high school and college days. Almost every weekend of every fishing since the couple has packed gear and tackle and departed for the Lochsa and Selway areas to fish. Mr. Phillip's first position here was with the Hastings Shoe Store and he was later employed at the R. C. Beach department store before starting his insurance agency. He was the first New York Insurance agent in the Northwest to attain membership in the $200,000 club for agentsselling that amount of insurance. He retired but several years later started working at Gregson's.Pioneered In ScoutingHe helped to inaugurate the Boy Scout organization here during World War I, was a member of Knights of Pythias, the Lewiston Elks Lodge and the Masonic Lodge, AF&AM, No. 10. He was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientists, at Lewiston, where he was an usher for many years.Survivors include his wife at the family home, 223 26th St.; two daughters, Mrs. Lee Habel of Spokane and Mrs. O.T. Nelson of Walla Walla; and son, Harry Phillips of Coeur d'Alene. Two other sons, Lt. Rex Phillips and Lt. James Austin Phillips, were killed during World War II.Other survivors are four brothers, Dr. Harry T. Phillips, who recently moved to Boise from Lewiston.; Dr. Frank Phillips, Boise; Dr. Roy Phillips, Glendale, Calif., and Fred Phillips, Seattle; two sisters, Mrs. Harold Thomas, Kooskia, and Mrs. Hugh Dresser, Lewiston and 11 grandchildren.Lewiston Tribune Saturday, February 09, 1952
G. Wendell Phillips, 62, was suddenly stricken with a heart attack at work yesterday morning and died a half-hour later at 10:30 a.m., at St. Joseph's hospital.
He was the manager and buyer of the men's department at Gregson's Shoe Store. He had recently been ill for five days with influenza but had returned to work Monday.Mr. Phillips was well-known at Lewiston, where he had lived for the last 49 years. For 20 years, from 1922 to 1942, he had the agency here for the New York Life Insurance Co. His office was at the Brier Building.Mr. Phillips was born March 15, 1889, at Sprague, Wash., one of five sons and two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Phillips.In 1903, the family moved to Lewiston where he was graduated from Lewiston high school in 1909. He attended the University of Idaho, Moscow, for two years. He was affiliated with Phi Delta Theta, a social fraternity.On June 19, 1913, he was married to Lois Starr Rowley, his sweetheart from high school and college days. Almost every weekend of every fishing since the couple has packed gear and tackle and departed for the Lochsa and Selway areas to fish. Mr. Phillip's first position here was with the Hastings Shoe Store and he was later employed at the R. C. Beach department store before starting his insurance agency. He was the first New York Insurance agent in the Northwest to attain membership in the $200,000 club for agentsselling that amount of insurance. He retired but several years later started working at Gregson's.Pioneered In ScoutingHe helped to inaugurate the Boy Scout organization here during World War I, was a member of Knights of Pythias, the Lewiston Elks Lodge and the Masonic Lodge, AF&AM, No. 10. He was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientists, at Lewiston, where he was an usher for many years.Survivors include his wife at the family home, 223 26th St.; two daughters, Mrs. Lee Habel of Spokane and Mrs. O.T. Nelson of Walla Walla; and son, Harry Phillips of Coeur d'Alene. Two other sons, Lt. Rex Phillips and Lt. James Austin Phillips, were killed during World War II.Other survivors are four brothers, Dr. Harry T. Phillips, who recently moved to Boise from Lewiston.; Dr. Frank Phillips, Boise; Dr. Roy Phillips, Glendale, Calif., and Fred Phillips, Seattle; two sisters, Mrs. Harold Thomas, Kooskia, and Mrs. Hugh Dresser, Lewiston and 11 grandchildren.Lewiston Tribune Saturday, February 09, 1952
He was the manager and buyer of the men's department at Gregson's Shoe Store. He had recently been ill for five days with influenza but had returned to work Monday.Mr. Phillips was well-known at Lewiston, where he had lived for the last 49 years. For 20 years, from 1922 to 1942, he had the agency here for the New York Life Insurance Co. His office was at the Brier Building.Mr. Phillips was born March 15, 1889, at Sprague, Wash., one of five sons and two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Phillips.In 1903, the family moved to Lewiston where he was graduated from Lewiston high school in 1909. He attended the University of Idaho, Moscow, for two years. He was affiliated with Phi Delta Theta, a social fraternity.On June 19, 1913, he was married to Lois Starr Rowley, his sweetheart from high school and college days. Almost every weekend of every fishing since the couple has packed gear and tackle and departed for the Lochsa and Selway areas to fish. Mr. Phillip's first position here was with the Hastings Shoe Store and he was later employed at the R. C. Beach department store before starting his insurance agency. He was the first New York Insurance agent in the Northwest to attain membership in the $200,000 club for agentsselling that amount of insurance. He retired but several years later started working at Gregson's.Pioneered In ScoutingHe helped to inaugurate the Boy Scout organization here during World War I, was a member of Knights of Pythias, the Lewiston Elks Lodge and the Masonic Lodge, AF&AM, No. 10. He was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientists, at Lewiston, where he was an usher for many years.Survivors include his wife at the family home, 223 26th St.; two daughters, Mrs. Lee Habel of Spokane and Mrs. O.T. Nelson of Walla Walla; and son, Harry Phillips of Coeur d'Alene. Two other sons, Lt. Rex Phillips and Lt. James Austin Phillips, were killed during World War II.Other survivors are four brothers, Dr. Harry T. Phillips, who recently moved to Boise from Lewiston.; Dr. Frank Phillips, Boise; Dr. Roy Phillips, Glendale, Calif., and Fred Phillips, Seattle; two sisters, Mrs. Harold Thomas, Kooskia, and Mrs. Hugh Dresser, Lewiston and 11 grandchildren.Lewiston Tribune Saturday, February 09, 1952
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