Edith Williams Warren Phillips
By Staff
October 8, 2009
Funeral for Edith Williams Warren Phillips, 83, of Crestview, Fla. was Saturday, October 10, at 11 a.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Gene Rice of Cleveland, Tenn. officiating.
Burial was in Hartselle Memory Gardens.
Mrs. Phillips died Thursday, October 8, 2009, at the Parphenon Health Care in Crestview, Fla., where she was a resident for the past four years. She was born on July 26, 1926, in Lawrence County to Lon and Nell Williams. She ministered with the Church of God for more than 50 years in four states. She attended Northwest Bible College in Minot, N.D. She pastored churches in Mound City, S.D. and Bonners Ferry, Ind. She served on numerous boards and committees for both church and communities in Alabama, North and South Dakota and Idaho. She was preceded in death by her husband, Marvin Phillips; her parents; a brother, Buford Williams; and a sister, Ann Robbins.
She is survived by four children, Rev. Bill Warren and wife Alice of Cullman, Margie Thomas and husband Bobby Joe of Ardmore, Tenn., Nancy Griffin and husband Johnny of Crestview, Fla. and Myra Albrecht and husband Bobby Ray of Decatur; nine grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; three sisters, Lois Fowler, Bobbie Masters and husband Roland and Shirley Beatty and husband James; and two brothers, David Ray Williams and wife Ann and Butch Williams.