Ethlyn Thompson Phillips

May 7, 2009

Ethlyn “Lynn” Dana Thompson Phillips, of Hillsborough, NC and formerly of Skaneateles died at home on May 7, 2009. She was 95. On April 21, 1914, Mrs. Phillips was born in Goshen, NY, to Dr. Charles H Thompson and Mabel Adams Thompson. She graduated from Wheaton College in Norton, MA, with a degree in English and German and also graduated from The Katharine Gibbs School in Boston. Mrs. Phillips worked in New York City at Collier Magazine and later as a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas; by one of her twin daughters, Linda Phillips Brown; by her brother, Dr. Hudson Thompson; and by her niece, Holly Thompson Ludwig. Mrs. Phillips lived most of her life in New York and in New England. She came to Hillsborough, NC, five years ago to live with family. She is survived by her other twin daughter, Heather Phillips Read, of Hillsborough; by five grandchildren: Gordon Brown of Boquete, Panama, soon to be in Washington, DC; Matthew Brown of Washington, DC; Forrest Read of Washington, DC; Zachary Read of Hillsborough, NC; and Karen Phillips of Durham, NC. Mrs. Phillips is also survived by six great-grandchildren; by her sister-in-law, Priscilla Thompson; and by five nieces and nephews. An Episcopalian burial of ashes will be held in New York at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made to Duke Home Care and Hospice or to The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in memory of Linda Phillips Brown. Local Arrangements by B.L. Bush & Sons Funeral Home