Iva Dean Browning Phillips' Obituary
Iva Dean Browning Phillips, 95, of Memphis, Texas died Friday, July 26, 2024 just shy of her 96th birthday, in Memphis, Texas.
Services will be 10:00 AM Wednesday, July 31, 2024 in the First Baptist Church in Memphis, Texas with Rev. Daniel Downey and Keith Martin, officiating. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery in Memphis.
Viewing will be held Tuesday at the funeral home with the family receiving friends for visitation from 4:00-6:00 PM.
Arrangements are by Robertson Funeral Directors of Memphis.
Iva Dean was born July 28, 1928 in Frost, Texas to Corbia and Harriet Catherine Price Browning. She graduated from Samnorwood High School. She worked as a telephone operator for a year before she married Cecil Phillips on January 28, 1949 in Quanah, Texas. She was a longtime resident of Memphis, where she was a devoted homemaker. She enjoyed quilting and having coffee with the girls. Iva Dean was a member of the 49ers Quilting Club, Atlantean Club, Fairview Cemetery Association, and volunteered for several years with Memphis Meals on Wheels. She was a devoted member of the First Baptist Church in Memphis, where she served on the Benevolence Committee and was a previous Sunday school teacher.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, on November 24, 1999; her brother, Sterling Browning and sister in law, Shirley Perry Browning; her son in law, Gordon Maddox; and a great grandson, Conner Scott.
Survivors include her sons, Randy Phillips and Charles Phillips both of Memphis; her daughter, Audrie Maddox of Memphis; 3 grandchildren, Trenton Crockett of Memphis, Tonya Scott and husband Dennis of Burnet, and Haydn Maddox of Brownwood; 3 great grandchildren, Kenley Maddox of Weatherford, Texas, Saylem Maddox and wife Sara of Levelland, Texas, and Clay Scott of Midland; 2 great great grandchildren, Ryser Rico of Weatherford, Texas and Stevie Maddox of Levelland; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins.
The family request memorials be sent to a favorite charity.
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