Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Thursday, October 20, 1977

PHILLIPS, DR. J. RALPH

Died at 11:42 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1977, at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital. He was 69, a resident of Baton Rouge and a native of Florala, Ala. Graveside services at Roselawn Memorial Park at 10 a.m. Friday conducted by the Rev. Fred Flurry.

Survived by his wife, Mrs. Julie Mecom Phillips, Baton Rouge; two daughters, Mrs. Bennis Sheehan, Boulder, Colo., and Mrs. Tom Mason, Amherst, Mass.; two sisters, Miss Edith Phillips and Miss Mabel Phillips, both of Baton Rouge, and five grandchildren.

He was a member of the East Baton Rouge Parish Medical Society, Louisiana Medical Society, American Medical Association, Southern Medical Association, American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Rabenhorst Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.