JOHN LAURENCE PHILLIPS

John Laurence Phillips Born November 4, 1938 to Lorenzo Earl and Hortense Byrd Chapman Phillips in Memphis TN. Graduated in 1956 from Horn Lake Mississippi High School. Earned a degree in Civil Engineering in 1961 from Mississippi State university. Served active duty as Lieutenant in the U.S. Army from 1961-1963 in Fort Ord, California. Employed as a Civil Engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District from 1961-1966. Employed by Ellers & Reaves Consulting Engineers 1966-1968. Earned a Masters Degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering in 1967 from Mississippi State University. Served as Director of the Memphis and Shelby County Pollution Control Division from 1969-1976. Opened and managed the Memphis Office of the consulting firm, Environmental Management Planning and Engineering of Nashville, TN from 1977-1983. Partner in the Memphis consulting engineering firm, Fisher Phillips & Arnold from 1983-1993. Owned Phillips Environmental Engineering 1994-1996. Served in the City of Germantown Engineering Division from 1997-2007. His loves were his wife, Candace Ann Richards Phillips, his daughter Meredith Ann Phillips Ross and husband James Michael Ross, and his granddaughters Halle Elizabeth Ross and Lindsey Ann Ross, his sister Betty Byrd Phillips Jamison, his brother Robert Earl Phillips, and his Catholic Church of the Incarnation in Collierville, TN. He enjoyed participating in most sports, especially golf and wallyball. He always said he had a really good time during his life that God gave him. He is preceded in death by his father Lorenzo Earl Phillips in 1978, his sister Betty Byrd Phillips Jamison, who died in an airplane crash with her husband Bill in 1968, and his mother Hortense Byrd Chapman Phillips in 2007. Upon death, he donated his body to the Genesis Medical Education & Research Institute in Memphis. The family requests that any memorials be sent in the form of donations to the Genesis Institute of Memphis, in lieu of flowers. A memorial service will be held on June 23, 10 a.m. at the Catholic Church of the Incarnation in Collierville. The service will be held in the small church on property. The church is located at 360 Bray Station Rd, Collierville, TN 38017.