Extracted from The Laurel Leader-Call (Laurel, MS)
Friday, March 28, 2008

Eunice McNeil Phillips

Eunice McNeil Phillips, 96, of Louin, died Wednesday, March 26, 2008, in Jasper County Nursing Home.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 29, 2008, at Antioch Baptist Church in Louin, with burial in Antioch Cemetery in Louin.

She was a member of Antioch Baptist Church in Louin.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Arlie and Ellen McNeil; her husband of 63 years, James Otho Phillips; a son, James Earl Phillips; four brothers, Edwin (Buddy) McNeil, George McNeil, Louie McNeil and Lewis McNeil; and a sister, Fannie Vermel Phillips.

She is survived by a son, Gova Gearld Phillips of Louin; a daughter, Georgia Ruth Crawley of Grand Bay, Ala.; a daughter-in-law, Marie Boyles of Moore, Oklahoma; a sister, Nita Mae Eubanks of Mobile, Ala.; 11 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday, March 28, 2008, at Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Bay Springs, which is in charge of arrangements.