Phyllis B. Edens

1941 - 2017

Phyllis B. Edens obituary, 1941-2017, Wilmington, NC

BORN

1941

DIED

2017

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Coble Funeral & Cremation Service at Greenlawn Memorial Park

1155 Shipyard Blvd

Wilmington, North Carolina

Phyllis Edens Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Dec. 26, 2017.

Phyllis June Baker Edens of Wilmington, NC passed away Saturday, December 23, 2017, at her home.
She was the widow of Philip Ray Edens. Phyllis was born March 14, 1941 to the late Colonel and Mrs. William O. Baker, US Army deceased. After World War II her father returned to the states for a short time before being reassigned back to Germany! Phyllis her sister Jo Ann, and her mother then followed her father back to Germany twice and several stateside assignments and living in Detroit, MI, Beaumont, TX, San Bernardino, CA, and finally to Fort Knox, KY where she graduated from high school in 1959. For a year she attended South Dakota State College and then returned to the Wilmington, NC area to study medical/laboratory careers and graduated from Wilmington College. Phyllis was hired by Cape Fear Memorial Hospital and eventually made head of the laboratory, she worked in the laboratory for 20 years and then retired.
She is survived by her two sons Philip Alan Edens, Jeffrey Wayne Edens; sister Jo Ann Galloway Cooper; niece Sheryl Eamma; nephew Steven Galloway; grand-nieces; Ashley Eamma, Kaylee Galloway, Meghan Eamma, and grand-nephew Parker Galloway.

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December 28, 2017

Florence Lee

We at St. John's Episcopal Church, Wilmington, NC express our sincere condolences to the family of Phyllis Edens.
Let us pray to the almighty God that all who mourn may know the consolation of His love.

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