Jessie O. Phillips-Johnson's Obituary
JESSIE O. PHILLIPS-JOHNSON
Services for Jessie O. Phillips-Johnson, 101, of Jasper, Texas will be noon Monday, March 9th at the Rader Funeral Home Chapel in Longview with Rev. Jonathan Bynum and Rev. Emmitt Barrow officiating. Burial will follow at the Shiloh Cemetery in Rusk County. Mrs. Johnson died Friday, March 6th in Jasper.
She was born September 3, 1907 in Wichita, Kansas to Mr. and Mrs. James Monroe Rambo. They moved to Dallas in 1912. In 1918, they moved to Kelly Field in San Antonio with the air corps. She graduated from Brackenridge High School and then from Southwest Texas Teachers College in San Marcos. In 1926, she married William M. Phillips and they had two sons, William M. Phillips, Jr. and Richard Neal Phillips. The family moved to Longview in 1945 where the sons graduated from high school and went on to graduate from Sam Houston College in Huntsville.
Jessie taught school in San Antonio, worked in civil service in Houston during the war as an inspector, was an accountant Albuquerque, and real estate agent in Longview. She was very active in garden clubs, organizing one in Albuquerque, one in Joplin, Missouri, and two in Longview. She organized the Green Thumb Garden Club which was composed of LeTourneau wives and was later reorganized into the Iris Garden Club of which she was the first president. She was a volunteer at Good Shepherd Hospital for a number of years, was a member of the American Association of Retired persons from the beginning of the chapter and served as a past-president. She helped organize the Longview Newcomers Club in 1971 and served as the first president.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, William M. Phillips, Sr.; her son, William M. Phillips, Jr.; and her second husband, Sidney M. Johnson, Sr.
She is survived by a son, Rev. Richard N. Phillips of Jasper; a grandson, Mark Phillips and his wife, Angie of Nacogdoches; a granddaughter Laura Campbell and her husband, Jeff; three great-granddaughters, Kailyn and Kylie Campbell and Katelyn Phillips, and a great-grandson, Jacob Phillips; a number of nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be Sunday evening at Rader Funeral Home, 1617 Judson Rd., 6 to 7:30 pm.
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