Mary MoreePhillips

Mary Moree Phillips went to be with the Lord on January 23, 2012 at the age of 103, 8 months and 14 days.  She passed away at the Town Hall Estates in Arlington.  Her funeral will be at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, January 29, 2012 at the chapel of Coker-Mathews Funeral Home with Gordon Grammer officiating.  Burial will follow at Memoryland Memorial Park.  Visitation will be at 1:00 p.m. until service time on Sunday.

 

Mrs. Phillips was born in the Kiser Community near Wolfe City, Texas on May 9, 1908 to John Wesley Gover Sr. and Beulah Levenia Oller Gover.  Her parents were farmers and owned the cotton gin in Kiser Community.  She first attended Maxie Hall School in the Kiser Community.  The family later moved to Greenville where she attended public school.  She continued her education at Burleson College in Greenville.

 

She married William Ralph Phillips from Wieland on November 26, 1931.  Besides being a homemaker she was a loving grandmother and mother-in-law.  She was a member of the South Side Church of Christ. 

 

They had one son, Gover Tillman (Till) Phillips.

 

She is survived by two nieces, Susan Duvall of Tyler, Cheryl Gover of Greenville; nephew, Herbert Gover formerly of Greenville; daughter-in-law, Carrie Ann Phillips of Arlington; grandchildren, Phil and Rusty Phillips and Phyllis Hecht; great-grandchildren, Jake Phillips of Arlington, Megan Phillips of Houston, Bryce Tillman Phillips of New York, Parker and Conner Till Phillips of Jasper.

 

Preceded her in death are her parents, husband, son, two brother, Albert Curtis Gover and Judge John Wesley Gover Jr., sister, Oney Clyde Sockwell, half-sister, Due Bowers and two nephews, Mickie Gover and John Wesley Gover III.

 

Pallbearers will Phil Phillips, Rusty Phillips, Conner Till Phillips, Jeff Hecht, Don Angell and Jason Duvall.

 

The family would like to thank all the nurses and aides at the Town Hall Estates for all the love and care they gave her during her 5 years there.