Troy Phillips

Troy Phillips



was born in Hardin County, Tennessee on October 15, 1907 the son of the late Robert Lee and Nannie Bell Cochran Phillips.



On March 10, 1935 he was united in marriage to the former Lillian Marie Crotts who preceded him in death on September 16, 1983. On December 24, 1988 he was married to the former Helen Stanfill Tyler, who survives.



Mr. Phillips began working as a farmer and later moved to Indiana, where he worked at Allied Feed Mills in Fort Wayne, Indiana until his retirement in 1972. He had lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana from 1952 until 1983. Mr. Phillips was a member of the United Pentecostal Church while in Fort Wayne and later a member of the Crump United Pentecostal Church in Crump, Tennessee.



He departed this life on September 2, 2006 at the Hardin County Nursing Home in Savannah, Tennessee at the age of 98 years, 10 months and 18 days.



Mr. Phillips is survived by his wife, Helen Phillips of Savannah, Tennessee;

a son, Joe Phillips and his wife, Barbara, of Fort Wayne, Indiana;

a daughter, Joyce A. Lee and her husband, Richard, of Flagstaff, Arizona;

a step-son, Dwight Tyler and his wife, Martha, of Adamsville, Tennessee;

2 step-daughters: Barbara Phillips and her husband, Neil, of Adamsville, Tennessee

and Charlotte Tidwell and her husband, John Charles, of New Johnsonville, Tennessee;

2 grandchildren: Jeffrey Phillips and Janelle Swenson; 4 step-grandchildren;

3 great-grandchildren: Tyler Swenson, Brooke Phillips and Bailey Phillips;

and 4 step-great-grandchildren.



In addition to his parents, Robert Lee and Nannie Bell Phillips, and his first wife, Lillian Marie Crotts Phillips, he was preceded in death by a brother, Joseph Eber Phillips

and 6 sisters: Mollie McDaniel, Grace Plunk, Sally Wiggington, Nell Tull, Bertha Gann and Flora Phillips.