Ora Etta Hester

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Mrs. Ora Hester Phillips, 97, of Fountain Hill, died Sunday, December 3, 2000, at the Beverly Health Care Center in Crossett. Mrs. Phillips was a native of Crossett; a resident of Fountain Hill for 70 years and a resident of Crossett for the past 7 years. She was a retired teacher who taught in the Welch and Fountain Hill schoola. She was a member of the Fountain Hill First Baptist Church where she was president of the WMU for many years and Sunday school teacher, and she was a member of the Eastern Star. She was preceded in death by her husband of 75 years, Robert R. (Ray) Phillips in January of this year; her parents, Jim & Maggie Geddie Hester; two brothers, Aldon E. & Roland E. Hester; a sister, Adelle Hollis and three brothers that died in infancy.
Survivors include three sons, James Avery Phillips and wife Maxine of Houston, TX, William R. "Bill" Phillips and wife JoAnn, and Millard E. Phillips and wife Edith of Crossett; two daughters, Elsa Raye Cason and husband V.W. of Fountain Hill and Gladys Hester Sanders of Lubbock, TX; one brother, J. Norman Hester of Crossett; two sisters, Corinne Binns of Crossett and Inez Norrell of El Dorado; seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; ten step-great-grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews; and two care-givers, Susie Murphy of Hamburg and Martha Boney of Bastrop, LA.
Funeral services are set for 11 a.m., Wednesday, December 6, at the Fountain Hill First Baptist Church with Revs. Bill Elton and Gene Gregory officiating. Pallbearers are to be Terry Phillips, Craig Gentry, Neal Phillips, Tim Vaden, Stewart Phillips and Tim Krisell. Honorary pallbearers are to be Sterling White, Bobby Binns, Thomas Norrell, Tim Norrell, Charles Hollis, Bill Hester, Dale Hester, Frank E. Denson, Robert A. Phillips and Edward Phillips. Interment will be in the Flat Creek Cemetery under the direction of Jones Funeral Home of Hamburg. Memorials may be made to the Fountain Hill First Baptist Church, c/o Velton Cason, 213 Ashley Road 482, Fountain Hill, AR 71642.

Ora married Robert Ray Phillips, son of Avery Lee Phillips and Mary Lucie Downey, on 4 Jan 1925. (Robert Ray Phillips was born on 18 Jul 1900 in Fountain Hill, Ashley, AR, died on 7 Jan 2000 in Crossett, Ashley, AR and was buried in Flat Creek Cemetery, Fountain Hill, Ashley, AR.)