Alice Marie Phillips' Obituary
Alice Marie Phillips, age 93, of Seaford, DE, died Sunday, June 29, 2008, at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD. She was born in Brooklyn, NY to Louis A. and Emma A. Benson on November 2, 1914.
At the age of forty-five, after her husband died, she went back to school with a High School Diploma and graduated from S.U.N.Y. at Stonybrook with a masters degree in Liberal Arts and from the University of Adelphi with a masters degree in Library Science. Alice was then employed in Selden, Long Island, NY as a librarian for fourteen years at the Middle County School District and by the Seldon Public Library for five years. For many years, she traveled the world on sabbatical leaves with her best friend, Edna Hayes, of Long Island, NY, enjoying life to its fullest.
Alice loved her family, people, and politics; and always put others before herself. Her greatest love of all was reading to groups of children. Though in her 90's, Alice most recently enjoyed surfing the web and sending and receiving emails.
Alice is survived by her daughter, Janet Phillips of Port Jefferson, N.Y.; son, Roy E. Phillips of Seaford, DE; and brother, Bill Benson of Valley Stream, N.Y. She is also survived by three grandchildren; Nicholas Phillips, Forest Phillips, and Lynn Fannin; and a great grandson, Austin Joseph Fannin.
There are no services.
Arrangements are being handled by Parsell Funeral Enterprises, Inc., Bridgeville, DE.
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