Louise Mitchell Phillips Day, 75, passed into grace peacefully on Wednesday, February 15, 2017.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, February 20, 2017, at St. Anne’s Church, 6055 Azle Ave. in Lake Worth.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be made to St. Deborah’s Guild, St. Annes’s Church, 6555 Azle Ave., Lake Worth, TX 76135 or to YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly, 84 Blue Ridge Cir., Black Mountain, NC 28711.
Louise was born November 27, 1941 in Yazoo City, Mississippi, the eldest of three daughters of Ruth Pierce Phillips and Clifton Mitchell Phillips. She graduated from Yazoo City High School in 1959 and from Mississippi State College for Women in 1963.
A kind, independent woman, she taught second grade in Florida, Alabama, and in the Eagle Mountain Saginaw Independent School District, retiring in 2005. She was a devoted member at St. Anne’s Church in Lake Worth.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Janie Ruth Phillips Houser.
Survivors include her husband, Marvin M. Day Jr.; sons, Marvin Martin (Marty) Day III and Clifton Phillips (Phillip) Day and wife, Helen Burrell; granddaughters, Sophie and Eila of Black Mountain, North Carolina; sister, Virginia (Ginger) Ann Phillips Bell and husband, French of Peachtree City, Georgia; brother-in-law, Charles Houser of Greenville, South Carolina, and many brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, and nieces and nephews throughout the southeast.