Barbara Ann Tyler Phillips

Barbara Ann Tyler Phillips

was born in Hardin County, Tennessee on June 8, 1940, the daughter of the late Harold Yates and Helen Wade Stanfill Tyler.

On November 30, 1962 she was united in marriage to Neal Phillips, who survives.

Barbara worked as a seamstress for 15 years at Harwood Manufacturing in Adamsville, Tennessee. After working for the garment factory she was the bookkeeper at her husband's business of running a full service gas station and mechanic work for 18 years.  When her husband semi retired she became a pretty good mechanic herself and assisted him at his own mechanic business at their home. Barbara went every Friday to the beauty shop and have her hair "fixed" and prided herself in her "looking good".  She enjoyed cooking, yard work, collecting Coke Cola and elephants memorabilia, embroidery, cross-stitching, and listening to Elvis music.  Barbara loved her family deeply, her husband Neal; her daughter, Sonia and her granddaughter, Casee.

In addition to her husband of 61 years, Neal of Adamsville, Tennessee, she is survived by her daughter, Sonia Ann Berry and her husband Greg of Savannah, Tennessee; granddaughter, Casee Alden Cromwell Gant and her husband Brandon; brother, Dwight Tyler and his wife Martha of Adamsville, Tennessee; and sister, Charlotte Tidwell and her husband John Charles of New Johnsonville, Tennessee; nephews, Todd Tyler and his wife Stacey, Craig Tyler and his wife Tina all of Savannah, Tennessee, John Charles Tidwell, Jr. and his wife Christy of New Johnsonville, Tennessee, Tom Wilkins of Adamsville, Tennessee; niece, Nikki Tidwell of Nashville, Tennessee, as well as a host of additional nieces and nephews.

Barbara was preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Shirley Wilkins of Adamsville, Tennessee.