Service for Phyllis Jean Phillips will be 2:00 p.m., Thursday, February 21, 2019 at MMS-Payne Funeral Home Chapel, burial will follow at Ward's Grove Cemetery. Friends may visit at the funeral home on Wednesday, February 20 from 1pm - 8pm, with family receiving visitors from
5:30pm - 8pm. Phyllis passed away on Sunday, February 17th, 2019. She was 65.
Born October 7, 1953 in Foyil, Oklahoma to Herron Oxford and Hazel (Hubbard) Rose, Phyllis attended schools at Foyil, graduating with the class of 1971. Later she continued her education at RSU, graduating there with a Associates Degree in Nursing. Phyllis worked as a registered nurse at Doctors Hospital in Tulsa.
Her hobbies included cross-stich and watching her kids and grandchildren play football, basketball and march in the band. She loved being around her family and spent time with them as often as she could.
Those family members that survive include her children Shonna Melton and wife Jessica and Brian Phillips and wife Cassie; her grandchildren Brook Roberts, Avey Phillips, Tyler Melton, Shelby Phillips, Travis Gowen, Christina Gowan, Rachel Gowen, Micheal Atkinson and Tessa Weedn; great granddaughter Kaylee Marie Ward and her mother Hazel Rose. Phyllis was preceded in death by her father Herron Oxford and her brothers Wayne Oxford, Bo Oxford and Dewite Oxford.
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