Geneva Turner Phillips

Geneva Turner Phillips, 81, of Pelkie, passed away on Thursday, May 19, 2005 at Bayside Village in L'Anse.

She was born June 13, 1923, in Detroit, MI, to the late Thomas A. and Callie C. (Combs) Turner. She was a graduate of Detroit High School. Geneva married Louis H. Phillips in 1942. She gave birth to a son, Harold Thomas Phillips in December 1943.

She lived in Michigan, Alabama, and Ohio before returning to Detroit. She had worked for several years as a civilian employee with the Air Force before relocating to Baraga County where she had lived the past 30 years.

Geneva loved to crocheted and knit for friends and family and gardening were her greatest pastimes. As the years past her love and appreciation for her Heavenly Father, Jehovah seemed to grow and prosper from day to day. Feeding and watching the animals outside her front window brought her endless satisfaction and she appreciated the wonderful creations of Jehovah God. May He remember her in the New Arrangement and reunite with her sisters, mother, father, son and friends.

She is survived by a son, Harold T. Phillips; sister, Reva L. Belcher; daughter-in-law, Diana A. Phillips; seven grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 7 p.m. in the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Baraga. A time of fellowship will follow the service in the hall.