The daughter of the late Mahlon and Bessie Jackson Burson, she was born on August 24, 1914, in Walton County, Georgia, and educated there. She was married for 56 years to Horace Phillips. She and her husband raised their two sons in Abbeville, SC.
She was a faithful and loyal member of the Abbeville First Baptist Church and the T.E.L. Sunday School Class. Mrs. Phillips was a homemaker and retiree of Abbeville Mills. She was a devoted wife and mother and loved all of her family and church and country.
She is survived by her son, Frank Phillips, and two brothers, John Wood Burson of Oxford, GA., and Mahlon Burson of Lawrenceville, GA. She was preceded in death by her son Joe Phillips, husband Horace Phillips, and sisters, Alice Mitchel, Amy Rose Briscoe, and Callie Whitley.
The daughter of the late Mahlon and Bessie Jackson Burson, she was born on August 24, 1914, in Walton County, Georgia, and educated there. She was married for 56 years to Horace Phillips. She and her husband raised their two sons in Abbeville, SC.
She was a faithful and loyal member of the Abbeville First Baptist Church and the T.E.L. Sunday School Class. Mrs. Phillips was a homemaker and retiree of Abbeville Mills. She was a devoted wife and mother and loved all of her family and church and country.
She is survived by her son, Frank Phillips, and two brothers, John Wood Burson of Oxford, GA., and Mahlon Burson of Lawrenceville, GA. She was preceded in death by her son Joe Phillips, husband Horace Phillips, and sisters, Alice Mitchel, Amy Rose Briscoe, and Callie Whitley.
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