[Johnson.FTW]
[1144734.FTW]
REFN: 114
From an unnamed and undated article located in the Lamar County
Ge nealogical Society Library, in the Taylor Collection, Box P: 'Francyle
Routt Phillips, 72, 335 W. Washington, died at 8 a.m. Thursday, July 28,
at St. Jos eph's Hospital. Services will be held at 4 p.m. Friday, July
29, at Fry and G ibbs Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. James Semple
officiating. Burial will be in the Ladonia Cemetery. The family will
receive friends from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Mrs.
Phillips was born Oct. 20, 1915, in Pecan Gap, a daughter of Otis W. and
Cora Maines Routt. She attended Pecan Gap scho ols, East Texas State
University and was a graduate of the Sanitarium of Pari s Nursing School
in 1936. She married Bernard R. Phillips on Dec. 17, 1938, i n Ladonia. He
died May 12, 1967. She had served as a Lamar County school nurs e for 19
years before retiring in 1980. She had also done nursing at McCuisti on
Medical Center and St. Joseph's Hospital. She was a member of the Baptist
Church, former member of the Paris Business and Professional Women's Club
a nd Texas State Teachers Association, American Nurses association, Texas
Nurse s Association and the District 13 Nurses Association. Surviving are
a number of cousins, including Jack Routt of Ladonia.'