Oklahoma Cemeteries Website
butterfly
image
Click here to break out of frames
This information is available for free. If you paid money for a
subscription to get to this site, demand a refund.
For any questions pertaining to an individual cemetery, you would need to contact the cemetery sexton / board / caretaker.

Obituary

Cedar Grove Cemetery
Pontotoc County, Oklahoma




Derrell Lynn Phillips
October 11, 1946 - August 21, 2023
© Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
Submitted by: Sandy Bain


Services for Derrell Lynn Phillips, 76, of Francis are 10:00 a.m. Friday, August 25, 2023 at Faith Assembly of God Church, Kenny Morrison and Rev. Richard Bailey will officiate. Burial will follow at Cedar Grove Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5:00-7:00 p.m. on Thursday.

Mr. Phillips passed away Monday, August 21, 2023 at his home. He was born October 11, 1946 in Ada to Glen and Hazel Matthews Phillips.

On June 1, 1966 he married Frances Adams.

Mr. Phillips began working for the Frisco Railroad in 1965 and retired in 1998. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. He was involved with the community and served on the Cedar Grove Cemetery Board for many years.

He is survived by his wife, Frances, of the home; son, Brent Phillips and wife Katie, of Eufaula, OK; two daughters, Jana Diehm and husband Gary, of Wichita Falls, TX, and Lisa Painter and husband, Terry, of Ada; two sisters, Mary Pherigo of Oklahoma City and Donna Green and husband Luther, of Ada; eight grandchildren, Taylor Powell, Ashlyn Wright, Kyndal Diehm, Susie Phillips, Logan Diehm, Hank Phillips, Scarlett Phillips and Hazel Phillips; and six great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Glen Dale Phillips; and a sister, Janet Chandler.

Bearers are Tim Harris, Cody Harris, Jeff Briggs, Scott Briggs, Kanan Matthews, and Larame Adams. Honorary bearers are Bill Ross, Tim Crawley, Lyle Henderson, Tim Wilson, and John Wilson.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada


|Cedar Grove Cemetery Page|  |Pontotoc County Cemetery Page|  |Home|



This site may be freely linked, but not duplicated in any way without consent.
All rights reserved! Commercial use of material within this site is prohibited!
© 2000-2024 Oklahoma Cemeteries

The information on this site is provided free for the purpose of researching your genealogy. This material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, for your own research, as long as this message remains on all copied material. The information contained in this site may not be copied to any other site without written "snail-mail" permission. If you wish to have a copy of a donor's material, you must have their permission. All information found on these pages is under copyright of Oklahoma Cemeteries. This is to protect any and all information donated. The original submitter or source of the information will retain their copyright. Unless otherwise stated, any donated material is given to Oklahoma Cemeteries to make it available online. This material will always be available at no cost, it will always remain free to the researcher.