Cecile Elaine Phillips Kistner's Obituary
Cecile Elaine Phillips Kistner, age 67, died Monday, November 23, 2020 in Houston, Texas.
Elaine was born February 12, 1953 to R.B. and Wanda Phillips. She graduated from Memphis High School and graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Elaine worked several years in Oklahoma City and then moved to California to work as the Senior Finance Manager at Levi Strauss & Company in San Francisco.
She moved to Austin, Texas and then to Houston, Texas. Elaine suffered many years with Front Temporal Dementia until the Lord called her home.
Elaine loved to sing, she had a beautiful voice and played the piano. She loved photography and photographed events with her son Justin.
Preceding in death are her parents; a brother, Mark Bruce Phillips; a son, Evan Meredith Kistner.
Surviving Elaine are her son, Justin Phillips Kistner of Houston; her sister, Dianne Sweatt and husband Wayne of Memphis; nephews, Greg Sweatt and wife Jayne, their children of Cochise, AZ; Mark Sweatt of Memphis and his son, Colton Sweatt of Canyon, Texas; John and Connie Trussell of Houston; and many Phillips cousins.
Memorial services are pending.
Local arrangements are by Robertson Funeral Directors of Memphis.
Please all memorials to Fairview Cemetery Association of Memphis.
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