Barbara Phillippi Obituary
Barbara Phillippi, 82, died Saturday July 15, 2017 at Avera Heart Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD. Her family will be present for a memorial visitation from 5:00-7:00 PM Thursday, July 20, 2017 at George Boom Funeral Home & Crematory.
Barbara Phillippi, 82, entered her eternal rest on Saturday, July 15, 2017. May she rest in the Peace of the Lord.
Barbara "Barbs" was born on June 17, 1935 in Willow Lake, South Dakota; the youngest child of Percy and Inez Hougton and little sister to Jim. Barbs graduated from Willow Lake High School in 1953 and continued her education, formally becoming an X-Ray technician. She worked at several hospitals in Colorado and Minnesota, finally arriving at Bryant Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she met her future husband.
Barbs married Larry Phillippi in May, 1959 and moved to Warren, Ohio where Larry accepted his first professional career position at Packard Electric. In 1961, Barbara and Larry welcomed their first child, Bruce. After purchasing their first home in 1963, Barbara, Larry and Bruce moved into a Kensington Avenue home in Warren Ohio and in 1965, they welcomed Laura. They moved the family to Mantua in 1969 after Larry accepted an engineering position with Samuel Moore & Co.
Barbs worked as a speech and hearing therapist in the Crestwood School District in Ohio while her kids were in elementary school. She was a member of the local Jr. Women's League and a long-time member of the Order of Eastern Star.
Barbs and Larry were presented the opportunity to live abroad in Belgium a year before Larry retired, and they jumped at the chance. They left the States in April, 1996 for a year of work, travel and sight-seeing and returned to the states in May, 1997. After buying a vacation home on a lake in Crossville, TN and spending time there, they decided that Crossville would be the ideal place to retire.
She loved watching the water on the lake, the birds and ducks – except the geese - and Barbs and Larry enjoyed boating around the lake on their pontoon with friends watching the lake's landscape change.
