Death came early Friday, February 18, to Louise Spencer Phillips, 89, Oregon pioneer school teacher and housewife, who died at a Tillamook hospital where she was taken Thursday following three weeks illness at the home of her son Irving S Phillips of near Tillamook.
Funeral services were conducted at the Church of the Nazarene, of which she was a member, last Sunday at 2 pm at Tillamook. Rev Harold Hart officiating.
Favorite hymns, 'Saved by Grace' and 'Ivory Palaces' were sung by Alma Moore and Herbert Blum. Burial was made beside the grave of her husband, who preceded her in death 40 years ago, at the Beaver Cemetery. Lundberg's mortuary in charge. Pallbearers were J.B. Honey, Herman Oldenkamp, Paul Thun, John Zurflueh, Charles Moore and Fred Thun.
Born in San Francisco on November 25, 1854, Mrs Phillips early accepted the Christian faith and staunchly followed that belief thruout her long life. At the age of eight months she moved with her parents to Forest Grove, Oregon where her mother died during the following year. In 1867 her father having remarried, the family returned to San Francisco, traveling with horses and wagon during the four week trip. Mrs Phillips attended grade and high school in Oakland, and also attended a private school in preparation to teach.
After teaching for a time in California, her father having died in 1876, she came to Oregon where she attended Tualitan Academy and Pacific University at Forest Grove. Here she again taught school until her marriage on October 15, 1879 to Stanley H Phillips. In 1900 the family moved to Tillamook County and bought a farm at Pleasant Valley where Mr Phillips died four years later. Mrs Phillips sold the farm and moves were made to Philomath in 1908 and to Forest Grove in 1911. Since 1918 she has lived with various ones of her children, mainly in Tillamook and Nehalem.
Survivors include one son, Irving Phillips, Tillamook; five daughters, Mrs Octav Voget of Sweet Home; Mrs Alwin Blum of Tillamook; Mrs Lester Bennett of Philomath; Mrs Richard Spring of Los Angeles; Mrs Harold Ober, Nehalem; two sisters, Mrs Julia Giesy and Mrs Eva LeGrand of Los Angeles; also 25 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
Tillamook Headlight Herald, February 24, 1944
Funeral services were conducted at the Church of the Nazarene, of which she was a member, last Sunday at 2 pm at Tillamook. Rev Harold Hart officiating.
Favorite hymns, 'Saved by Grace' and 'Ivory Palaces' were sung by Alma Moore and Herbert Blum. Burial was made beside the grave of her husband, who preceded her in death 40 years ago, at the Beaver Cemetery. Lundberg's mortuary in charge. Pallbearers were J.B. Honey, Herman Oldenkamp, Paul Thun, John Zurflueh, Charles Moore and Fred Thun.
Born in San Francisco on November 25, 1854, Mrs Phillips early accepted the Christian faith and staunchly followed that belief thruout her long life. At the age of eight months she moved with her parents to Forest Grove, Oregon where her mother died during the following year. In 1867 her father having remarried, the family returned to San Francisco, traveling with horses and wagon during the four week trip. Mrs Phillips attended grade and high school in Oakland, and also attended a private school in preparation to teach.
After teaching for a time in California, her father having died in 1876, she came to Oregon where she attended Tualitan Academy and Pacific University at Forest Grove. Here she again taught school until her marriage on October 15, 1879 to Stanley H Phillips. In 1900 the family moved to Tillamook County and bought a farm at Pleasant Valley where Mr Phillips died four years later. Mrs Phillips sold the farm and moves were made to Philomath in 1908 and to Forest Grove in 1911. Since 1918 she has lived with various ones of her children, mainly in Tillamook and Nehalem.
Survivors include one son, Irving Phillips, Tillamook; five daughters, Mrs Octav Voget of Sweet Home; Mrs Alwin Blum of Tillamook; Mrs Lester Bennett of Philomath; Mrs Richard Spring of Los Angeles; Mrs Harold Ober, Nehalem; two sisters, Mrs Julia Giesy and Mrs Eva LeGrand of Los Angeles; also 25 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
Tillamook Headlight Herald, February 24, 1944
Death came early Friday, February 18, to Louise Spencer Phillips, 89, Oregon pioneer school teacher and housewife, who died at a Tillamook hospital where she was taken Thursday following three weeks illness at the home of her son Irving S Phillips of near Tillamook.
Funeral services were conducted at the Church of the Nazarene, of which she was a member, last Sunday at 2 pm at Tillamook. Rev Harold Hart officiating.
Favorite hymns, 'Saved by Grace' and 'Ivory Palaces' were sung by Alma Moore and Herbert Blum. Burial was made beside the grave of her husband, who preceded her in death 40 years ago, at the Beaver Cemetery. Lundberg's mortuary in charge. Pallbearers were J.B. Honey, Herman Oldenkamp, Paul Thun, John Zurflueh, Charles Moore and Fred Thun.
Born in San Francisco on November 25, 1854, Mrs Phillips early accepted the Christian faith and staunchly followed that belief thruout her long life. At the age of eight months she moved with her parents to Forest Grove, Oregon where her mother died during the following year. In 1867 her father having remarried, the family returned to San Francisco, traveling with horses and wagon during the four week trip. Mrs Phillips attended grade and high school in Oakland, and also attended a private school in preparation to teach.
After teaching for a time in California, her father having died in 1876, she came to Oregon where she attended Tualitan Academy and Pacific University at Forest Grove. Here she again taught school until her marriage on October 15, 1879 to Stanley H Phillips. In 1900 the family moved to Tillamook County and bought a farm at Pleasant Valley where Mr Phillips died four years later. Mrs Phillips sold the farm and moves were made to Philomath in 1908 and to Forest Grove in 1911. Since 1918 she has lived with various ones of her children, mainly in Tillamook and Nehalem.
Survivors include one son, Irving Phillips, Tillamook; five daughters, Mrs Octav Voget of Sweet Home; Mrs Alwin Blum of Tillamook; Mrs Lester Bennett of Philomath; Mrs Richard Spring of Los Angeles; Mrs Harold Ober, Nehalem; two sisters, Mrs Julia Giesy and Mrs Eva LeGrand of Los Angeles; also 25 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
Tillamook Headlight Herald, February 24, 1944
Funeral services were conducted at the Church of the Nazarene, of which she was a member, last Sunday at 2 pm at Tillamook. Rev Harold Hart officiating.
Favorite hymns, 'Saved by Grace' and 'Ivory Palaces' were sung by Alma Moore and Herbert Blum. Burial was made beside the grave of her husband, who preceded her in death 40 years ago, at the Beaver Cemetery. Lundberg's mortuary in charge. Pallbearers were J.B. Honey, Herman Oldenkamp, Paul Thun, John Zurflueh, Charles Moore and Fred Thun.
Born in San Francisco on November 25, 1854, Mrs Phillips early accepted the Christian faith and staunchly followed that belief thruout her long life. At the age of eight months she moved with her parents to Forest Grove, Oregon where her mother died during the following year. In 1867 her father having remarried, the family returned to San Francisco, traveling with horses and wagon during the four week trip. Mrs Phillips attended grade and high school in Oakland, and also attended a private school in preparation to teach.
After teaching for a time in California, her father having died in 1876, she came to Oregon where she attended Tualitan Academy and Pacific University at Forest Grove. Here she again taught school until her marriage on October 15, 1879 to Stanley H Phillips. In 1900 the family moved to Tillamook County and bought a farm at Pleasant Valley where Mr Phillips died four years later. Mrs Phillips sold the farm and moves were made to Philomath in 1908 and to Forest Grove in 1911. Since 1918 she has lived with various ones of her children, mainly in Tillamook and Nehalem.
Survivors include one son, Irving Phillips, Tillamook; five daughters, Mrs Octav Voget of Sweet Home; Mrs Alwin Blum of Tillamook; Mrs Lester Bennett of Philomath; Mrs Richard Spring of Los Angeles; Mrs Harold Ober, Nehalem; two sisters, Mrs Julia Giesy and Mrs Eva LeGrand of Los Angeles; also 25 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
Tillamook Headlight Herald, February 24, 1944
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