Roberta Phillips

Roberta Phillips

Funeral services for Mrs. Roberta "Bert" Phillips, of Dublin, will be held on Saturday at 11:00 AM at the Green Grove Baptist Church, 317 Linder Street in Dublin. Reverend Milton Hughes will officiate. Interment will follow in the Mount Pullen A. M. E. Church Cemetery, 1304 Lakewood Road in East Dublin.

Mrs. Phillips, who passed on July 27, 2013, was born on June 4, 1938, to the late Alzada Jones and J. D. Demmons. She attended Washington Street School in Dublin and she also attended Howard Chapel School during her youth.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard Phillips; a brother, Willie "SJ" White; two sisters, Nina Louise White and Dorothy Jeanette Smith. She resided in Erie, Pennsylvania, until July 2011, and moved back to Dublin, to be with her sister and immediately joined Green Grove Missionary Baptist Church.

Mrs. Phillips is survived by a stepson, Howard Lee Phillips; one sister, Annie Henry Christie; one brother, Larry (Candance); nieces, Angelia Brown, Wanda (Scarlett) Watkins, Josephine (Paul) Taylor; nephews, Bennie (Eshter) White, Kenneth White, Corey White, Kendrick (Nichelle) Henry, Kedrick Henry (T'Shura) and Eric Henry. She also leaves special friends, The Waldens of Dublin, Gerta Crosby of Erie, Pennsylvania, Mack Anderson and Doris Toria; goddaughter, Mary Jordan of Erie, Pennsylvania, and a host of other relatives and friends.

The family will receive friends at 300 Lacross Street in Dublin.

Services By Dudley Funeral Home of Dublin