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Ossie Faye Gentry Phipps

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Birth	:	15 May 1899 Virginia, USA
Death	:	Jan 1996 USA
Burial	:	Felts Memorial Cemetery, Galax, Galax City, USA
Coordinate	:	36.6804314, -80.9088821
Plot	:	Old Section A Row 18 A1804
Description	:	Daughter of Professor Augustus Monroe Gentry and Salli Fine Cox _______ Ossie was raised in the Potato Creek area of Grayson Cty, Va. Ossie and a neighbor girl named Annie Cox were the two people chosen to unveil the Confederate monument on the lawn of the 1908 Courthouse in Independence when it was first raised. Ossie always told everyone "I live in Ohio but my heart is in Grayson...that is the place that I love. I had a wonderful mother and dad and few people realized that Grayson Cty is a most beautiful and wonderful place." __________ PHIPPS, Ossie Faye Gentry, 96, of Dayton, Ohio, died... Read More	Daughter of Professor Augustus Monroe Gentry and Salli Fine Cox _______ Ossie was raised in the Potato Creek area of Grayson Cty, Va. Ossie and a neighbor girl named Annie Cox were the two people chosen to unveil the Confederate monument on the lawn of the 1908 Courthouse in Independence when it was first raised. Ossie always told everyone "I live in Ohio but my heart is in Grayson...that is the place that I love. I had a wonderful mother and dad and few people realized that Grayson Cty is a most beautiful and wonderful place." __________ PHIPPS, Ossie Faye Gentry, 96, of Dayton, Ohio, died Monday, January 29,1996. She was born May 15, 1899 at Mouth Of Wilson, Va. and lived in Virginia until 1926. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she lived until 1978 and then moved to Dayton, Ohio. Mrs. Phipps is preceded in death by her husband of sixty four years, Lloyd W. Phipps in 1986, their baby daughter, Jeralene, Jewel in 1926, five sisters and two brothers, Verna Phipps, Viola Phipps, Ina Osborne, Ohnah Cox, Sallie Mackey, Payne Gentry, Paul Gentry, her parents, Professor A.M. Gentry and Sallie Fine Cox Gentry. Ossie Faye was a retired teacher having taught in Virginia and Cincinnati, Ohio. She attended Radford University. She was active in the community, church and fraternal organizations throughout her lifetime and was an active member of Westwood United Methodist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, many committees and commissions, Order of Eastern Star, Westwood Chapter #290, Westwood Civic Club, Westwood Women's Club and Daughters of America. She is survived by a daughter, son-in-law and grandson, Frances Lee, Donald and Peter Christian Nordstrom, all of Dayton, Ohio. Funeral services will be held at Galax First United Methodist Church on Saturday, February 3, 1996. Visitation will be from 1 to 3 p.m. followed by the service at 3 p.m. then burial in Felts Memorial Cemetery, Galax with the Rev. Ken Perkins officiating. Arrangements by Vaughan-Guynn Funeral Home, Galax. Roanoke Times, The (VA)

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Ossie Faye Gentry Phipps death on Jan 1996 in USA
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Latitude: 36.6804314
Longitude: -80.9088821

Family Members:

Parent

Augustus Monroe Gentry

(1859 - 1947)

Sarah Fine “Sallie” Cox Gentry

(1868 - 1953)

Spouse

Lloyd Walter Phipps

(1900 - 1986)

Siblings

Verna Manon Gentry Phipps

(1889 - 1961)

Viola Gertrude Gentry Phipps

(1892 - 1981)

Ina Ruth Gentry Osborne

(1894 - 1974)

Payne Monroe Gentry

(1904 - 1968)

John Paul Gentry

(1908 - 1970)

Children

Geraldine Jewell Phipps

(1924 - 1926)

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