VELMA PHILLIPS

STONEWALL-Graveside services for Velma Strader Phillips, 101, Stonewall are 2:00 p.m. Saturday at East Hill Cemetery near Roff, Carl Hayes will officiate.

Mrs. Phillips died Thursday, September 3, 2009 at a Stonewall nursing home. She was born February 14, 1908 at Holdenville, Oklahoma to Charlie Wayne and Mabel Condren Strader. She and her family moved to this area in 1914 from Holdenville. She attended Lawrence grade school and graduated from Ada High School.

She married Burl T. Phillips on May 8, 1930 at Sulphur. He preceded her in death on June 20, 1987 at Ada. Mrs. Phillips was a retail clerk at Dillon's Department Store and previously, she and her husband owned and operated a grocery store and auto repair shop. She was affiliated with the Free Will Baptist Church and was a member of the Rebekah Lodge an auxiliary of the Odd Fellows.

Survivors include a daughter, Joyce Phillips Tinsley and husband Robert W. Tinsley, Boles, Arkansas; three grandsons, Dibrell Phillips II, Crowley, TX, Robert W. Tinsley II, Clearwater, Florida and Bruce T. Tinsley, Boles, Arkansas; two granddaughters, Sheryl Edwards, Ada and Dana Phillips, Dallas, TX; six great grandchildren; five great great grandchildren; and nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Charlie W. and Mabel Condren Strader, her husband, a son, Dibrell Lee Phillips, brothers, Virgil Strader and twin brothers at childbirth, sisters, OraLee Strader (age 3), Edrie Strader Anthony, and Audra Strader Smith, and a great granddaughter, Shelby Tinsley (age 5 months).

The family says those who wish may make memorials to the Alzheimer's Association, Oklahoma and Arkansas Chapter, Inc., 6465 South Yale Ave., Ste. 312, Tulsa, OK 74136-7804.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada