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- [S537] Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935.
Name: Ethel Matilda Clift
Ereignistyp: Birth
Ereignisdatum: 07 Sep 1918
Ereignisort: Willow, Woodbury, Iowa, United States
Geschlecht: Female
Name des Vaters: Lewis Clift
Name der Mutter: Elizabeth J. Mc Larty
Zertifikatsnummer, Urkundennummer:
GS-Filmnummer: 1451576
Digitale Ordnernummer: 004265771
Aufnahmenummer: 00198
- [S926] Find-A-Grave, (www.findagrave.com).
- [S927] Obituary.
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Ethel C. Phillips, 94, of Morehead City, died Sunday, April 21, 2013, at Carolina House in Morehead City.
Her service is at 3 p.m. today at Brooks Funeral Home with the Rev. Timothy J. Havlicek officiating. Interment will be private.
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She was born Sept. 7, 1918, the daughter of the late Lewis O. Clift and Elizabeth Jane McLarty Clift of Woodbury County, Iowa. In 1937, upon completing the executive secretarial course of the National Business Training School in Sioux City, Iowa, she was employed in the export sales department of Wincharger Corp. for the next five years. When World War II brought factory conversion to production for the military in 1942, she moved to Los Angeles. There, she was employed by the Los Angeles Times (The Mirror Publishing Co.). Choosing a more active participation in World War II on March 10, 1943, she enlisted in the newly formed Marine Corps Women?s Reserve. She was immediately placed on active duty in the Los Angeles Recruiting Office. Eventually, after indoctrination at Hunter College, the Bronx, N.Y., she was assigned to duty in the personnel department, Officer?s Promotion Division at Headquarters Marine Corps in Arlington, Va. She completed 30 months active duty as a staff sergeant upon discharge Sept. 26, 1945. Returning to civilian life in San Francisco, she was employed as an export sales correspondent with Fidelity Trading Co., an export and import brokerage serving the great postwar needs of the Pacific Rim countries. It was in that city on Sept. 10, 1947, she married a U.S. Navy veteran, Edmund Gorham Phillips, a native of Morehead City. There followed residency in Kansas City, Mo., where she was employed in the export sales department of Butler Manufacturing Co. After a family move to Chicago in 1948, she was employed in the export sales department of Monarch Finer Foods (Consolidated Grocers Corp.) for 2½ years. Purchase of family property in 1951 brought the couple to residence in Mr. Phillip?s hometown of Morehead City. Locally, she was employed for many years as a fire and casualty insurance agent/broker with Skinner A. Chalk Jr. Mutual Insurance Agency. Subsequently, she was employed by Wachovia Insurance Agency Inc., and later with Joe C. Beam, ultimately retiring from Beam, Cooper, Gainey and Associates in 1980.
Ethel was a family historian and loved history. She was a volunteer with the Carteret County Historical Society and their research library at The History Place for more than 25 years. She accompanied the Rev. Dennis Kastens, St. Louis, Mo., (a distant cousin) and his tour group on numerous trips to Europe, spending considerable time in Germany. Rev. Kastens published a number of books on family history and she worked with him on the manuscripts of these books. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Morehead City and sang in the choir.
She is survived by her nephews, Brian M. Hilts and wife Tammy of Salix, Iowa, and Michael D. Clift and wife Ann of Blauvelt, N.Y.; nieces, Denice M. Clift of Vermillion, S.D., Ronda H. Rosenbaum and husband Tony of Sioux City, Iowa, and LuAnn C. Fell and husband Joseph of Franklin, Tenn.; grandnephews, Corey Hilts, Brenden Clift, Matthew Clift, Gregory S. Clift; grandnieces, Danielle Hilts, Brianna Hilts, Elizabeth Fell and Carley Fell; great-grandniece, Bella Hilts; and grandnephews, Dr. William Daniel Caffrey Jr. and wife Barbara Caffrey of Greensboro and Russell Caffrey of Wilmington. She is also survived by a caring and dearly devoted friend, Debra M. Laughinghouse of Morehead City.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, E.G. Phillips, a brother, Carol O. Clift and two sisters, Nina Elizabeth Clift and Dorothea C. Hilts.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to First Presbyterian Church, 1604 Arendell St., Morehead City, N.C. 28557; The History Place, 1008 Arendell St., Morehead City, N.C. 28557 or Salvation Army, P.O. Box 399, Morehead City, N.C. 28557.
Arrangements are by Brooks Funeral Home and Crematory Inc. of Morehead City. Access online obituary and Internet condolences through www.brooksfuneralhomeandcrematory.com.
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