Source: http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/223-10292007-1431676.html
WILLIAM N. PHILLIPS
Browns Mills, NJ Resident
William N. Phillips of Browns Mills, NJ; passed away on October 26th 2007. He was 62.
He served as a corporal in the US Marine Corps for four years during the Vietnam War, and earned the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Campaign Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal. He worked as a supervisor/bridge foreman for the Burlington County Highway Department. He was a member of the Messiah Lutheran Brethren Church in Presidential Lakes, a member of the Bordentown Elks Lodge #2085, and was a Life Member of the N.R.A.
Predeceased by his parents Barclay and Ruth (nee Regn) Phillips, and by his sister Helen Perron, he is survived by his wife Arlene Phillips of Browns Mills, and by his children Adrianne Campen, William Phillips Jr., Robert Phillips and his wife Jennifer, and by Alison Rivera. He is also survived by four grandchildren Kaylin, Chelsey, Barry, and Zachary; by his brothers and sisters Charles Phillips (Lois); Wayne Phillips, Sandra Wells (Steven), Alice Phillips, James Phillips ( Mary Ann), Richard Phillips (Suzanne), Barclay Phillips Jr. (Carol), and Phyllis Balas (Michael), by his brother-in-law Christopher Perron, and by many nieces and nephews.
Funeral Services will be held on Friday November 2 at 11AM at the PERINCHIEF CHAPELS, 438 High St., Mt. Holly. Interment will follow in the Jr. Mechanics Cemetery, Tabernacle. Friends may visit with the family on Thursday evening from 7-9PM at the funeral home.
Contributions in his memory may be made to the American Heart Assoc., 1 Union St., Suite 301, Robbinsville, NJ 08691; or to the American Cancer Society, 1851 Old Cuthbert Rd., Cherry Hill, NJ 08034.
October 29, 2007 12:00 AM
Helen Phillips
Source: http://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/obituaries/20180221/helen-phillipsFeb 21, 2018
Helen P. Phillips of Edgewater Park, age 103 years, passed away February 18th, 2018 at home with her loving daughters by her side. She was a native of Pennsauken, a resident of Delanco for 8 years and Riverside from 1961 until 2006, when she moved to Cooper Valley, Edgewater Park. She was the former owner of the Bookstore on Bridgeboro St., Riverside. Helen was a former member of the former 1st Presbyterian Church of Delanco where she was a former Elder and presently was a member of the Covenant Presbyterian Church, Cinnaminson since 2015. She was former volunteer for Zurbrugg Memorial Hospital Ladies Auxiliary, Riverside and the Delanco Women’s Club. She loved knitting and was an avid reader. She was the wife of the late James W. Phillips who passed away in 1980. Beloved mother of Arlene Phillips and Judith A. Phillips both of Edgewater Park. Relatives and friends Helen’s family are invited to her viewing and visitation 9:30AM to 11:00 AM Friday morning at the Covenant Presbyterian Church 2618 New Albany Road, Cinnaminson where her funeral service will be held at 11:00 AM. Interment will follow in Arlington Cemetery, Pennsauken. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the donor’s favorite charity. The Lankenau Funeral Home 303-305 Bridgeboro St., Riverside Stephen Lankenau, Director
Roberta Phillips
August 10, 1943 - May 18, 2023
Manhattan, Kansas
Source: https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/ks/manhattan/roberta-phillips-16416994; https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/roberta-phillips-obituary?id=51976823
Roberta Phillips Obituary
Roberta Phillips's passing on Thursday, May 18, 2023 has been publicly announced by Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral Home in Manhattan, KS.
William Phillips Jr's Facebook
It is with a heavy heart to say that Mom passed away earlier this afternoon. She fought through until she was called to join the family upstairs. Many know her from working at Southampton Township Schools for thirty years, whether it was playground duty or working in the cafeteria or kitchen. She will be missed by those who got to know her. Debbie, Robert, and Yours Truly will do our best to carry your spirit going forward. The impact she leaves behind is beyond what I can think of, at this minute. Rest easy, and Good Bye, until we meet again. 😢😭🙏🙏🙏 — feeling sad.
A Bookshop With A Social Conscience
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150919075422/http://articles.philly.com/1986-02-16/news/26090232_1_books-shady-maps-and-magazinesBy S. A. Paolantonio, Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted: February 16, 1986It's a slow morning just before lunch in The Book Shop in Riverside, and Arlene Phillips, making her way through vintage copies of National Geographic, hears the family dog, Shady, scratching on the door.
She hasn't much time for Shady now. There's a call about her Sunday school duties and several unfulfilled requests from customers, and all those magazines - some dating as far back as World War I.
Phillips is matching a new batch of old magazines with lists from far- flung collectors - National Geographic buffs in such remote sections of New Jersey as Camden and, well, Delran.
Shady pokes through the door leading to the Phillips living room - the shop is attached to their home - and promptly seeks attention from the nearest customer, receiving a mild scolding from Phillips, who, with a rag and some water in a plastic bottle, is removing dust from an April 1944 copy of the famous journal of photography and adventure.
"You get dirty doing it," said Phillips, "but I like it."
Arlene, 41, and her mother, Helen Phillips, founded The Book Shop in downtown Riverside in 1957 and, five years later, moved it to a house on the corner of Bridgeboro and Progress Streets.
With a clear sense of community conscience - "you've got to have bookshops," Helen says - mother and daughter do a modest trade in used paperbacks and hardcovers, old music sheets, a few maps and magazines, especially National Geographic.
There's not much of a living in it. But, then, Arlene and Helen Phillips say they are not in it for the money. Besides, mall-size bookstores financed by huge chains are killing most small booksellers, they said.
"You can't sell new books in this area - too expensive," said Helen Phillips, 71, who explained that the chain stores, buying in bulk, are able to undercut smaller businesses. "We don't make enough to live on."
That's not all they compete against. The widespread use of videocassette recorders also is competing with books for the public's attention.
"It's just hard to get people to come in and browse," Helen Phillips said.
"I think people who go to bookshops are people who want books, not VCRs," she said. "I think all this stuff is great, but people forget to read."
Do they own a VCR?
"Nope," she answered without delay. "Not if I can help it."
"We don't even have cable," her daughter chimed in.
But the owners of The Book Shop make no apologies for their brisk business in books that peddle another form of marginal culture - the Harlequin Romance novel. Harlequins are stacked shoulder-high on a dozen shelves, not far from the cash register. There are The Ice Maiden by Sally Wentworth and Not Once, But Twice by Betty Neels. Then there's Barbara Cartland, whose books include Desire of the Heart, Sweet Punishment and Say Yes, Samantha.
"Some of the titles," said Arlene Phillips, "are more, well, uh, suggestive, spicy."
"They buy them by the bagful," she continued. "I have a lady who comes in every month and she buys eight or ten dollars' worth."
But, mostly, The Book Shop is filled with books and journals of poetry, history, music, art and science.
Tacked to one wall, in a plastic sandwich bag, is a transcript of the testimony then-Lt. Col. John Glenn gave to the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences several days after his 88-minute orbit of the planet.
A few months ago, Arlene and her mother found it buried in a box of books a friend had sold to them before moving to Florida a few months ago. But it was not until the recent space shuttle explosion that she realized how timely a discovery it was.
On Page 26 of the testimony, Sen. Robert S. Kerr, the committee's chairman, and Glenn are wrapping up a discussion of NASA's decision to allow live television coverage of launches of the early space program. Glenn and Kerr agree, according to the testimony, that unlike the Soviet space program, America's should take place in public.
But, Glenn warns, "We are sort of riding the crest of success here at the moment. . . . As in aviation, there will be failures sometime.
"Anytime you have this type of motion, this much machinery," Glenn told the committee, "and these kinds of speeds involved, sometimes there will be failures. . . ."
Arlene and Helen Phillips love to talk about the treasures of The Book Shop. They seem to have a sentimental attraction to their business even though it gives them little financial gain.
In fact, they would change little about it, except maybe to persuade more children to stop in, and not just in August, when, in the tedium of summer's end, anything will do.
"Every place has got to have bookshops," Helen Phillips said. "You can't do without them."
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