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1863 - 2002



Phillips, Elnora Schroer Fox

Elnora S. Phillips Madison native.. Elnora Schroer Phillips, 86, died Thursday, Jan. 23, 2003, at a nursing home in Lebanon, Ill. The funeral was Jan. 28, 2003, at the Wilson Funeral Home in Madison. The Rev. Bob Robison officiated. Burial was at Grant Township Cemetery, east of Marion.

Mrs. Phillips was born Sept. 24, 1916, in Marion, to William and L. Pearl Sampson Fox. She moved to the Madison community from Winchester in 1957 and to Illinois in 2000. She married John Schroer on July 25, 1936, in Cottonwood Falls. He,died Jan. 9, 1975. She married Joe Phillips on April 29, 1977, in Gridley. He died June 8, 1981.

Her survivors include a son, John W. Schroer Jr. of Springfield, Mo.; and three daughters, Viola Ohlemeier of O'Fallon, Ill., Vera Hayes of Springfield and Dorothy Cummings of Worthington, Minn,; four sisters, Roselma Griggs of Hutchinson, Lillie Lower and Mildred Rhoads, both of Topeka and Lucille Osgood of Middleton, Idaho. Two sisters, Myrtle Thut and Minnie Goodell and two infant brothers died earlier.

Mrs. Phillips, a homemaker, had worked as office manager at John's Garage in Madison. Her memberships included St. Michael's Episcopal Church in O'Fallon, First Christian Church in Madison, the Gravel Hill Club, Madison Senior Citizens and Rebekah Lodge in Madison. Instead of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions in her name to the First Christian Church or the American Cancer Society, sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. BQx, 488, Madison, KS 66860.

Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas,. Jan 30 2003.





Chase County Death Notices and Obituaries,
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