RUTH ELIZABETH PHILLIPS

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Ruth Elizabeth Phillips,
78, Russell, formerly of Amherst, died Friday, July24, 2009, at Salina Regional Hospital.
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She was born Nov. 19, 1930, in the Amherst community to Rudy and Thelma (Wyckoff) Motzner.
She graduated from Waldo High School.
She married Kenneth Phillips on Dec. 9, 1948, in Woodston.
She was a dispatcher for Russell County Sheriff's Department from 1974 through the late 1990s.
Survivors include her husband, of the home;
two daughters, Carla Batt, Victoria and Elizabeth (Rick) Langdon, DeSoto;
son, Paul (Glenda), Russell;
six grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death; son-in-law, Larry Batt.
Services were at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Otterbein United Methodist Church, Russell. Burial was in Amherst Cemetery, south of Waldo.
Memorials are suggested to Otterbein United Methodist Church in care of Pohlman-Varner-Peeler Mortuary, Russell.