Phyllis Mabel Gendvilas

I worked with Phyllis at Creighton Children's Center for 20 years. As teachers we did more than just teach. We were responsible for the cleaning of toys and furniture. Every August before the new school year we would scrub all the furniture and the chairs. Phyllis would get out her spray bottle of Zoom (Amway product she sold), a rag and then out of her pocket she would pull an old worn out Toothbrush and start scrubbing. We would look at her and say "Phyllis, we have 15 chairs to clean...

This is a card from the Memorial Board at the funeral that was OK to post on this website - Tony (son)

Dear "Sister",

I will still be talking to you every day as we have done over the last 50 years. I will remember our times with eating ice cream - you'd laugh at 50 flavors - I still took vanilla.

You are with our Lord and I will be happy about that!

All my Love,
Pat

This is a card from the Memorial Board at the funeral that was OK to post on this website - Tony (son)

We have known Phyllis as long as she was in the church. What a wonderful service she did for Shepherd. My grandchildren and great grandchildren loved her.

She held them and rocked them. She was my friend. I talked to her around Christmas and she told me how great it was to take care of her grandson. We will miss her!

This is a card from the Memorial Board at the funeral that was OK to post on this website - Tony (son)

In 1989 the church campus was all spruced up for a new minister and his family. Everything looked great except a chair in the nursery that Phylllis used to comfort and love her babies. It was so worn and dark. I made a new slip cover and this wonderful generous person was so grateful she never stopped saying thank you! What a blessing she was.

This is a card from the Memorial Board at the funeral that was OK to post on this website - Kathryn (daughter)


My Best memory is when Phyllis became Godmother to my Daughter Shawn, three children, Bradley, Chris, and Brittany. The picture is of Brittany and Phyllis in 2006.

Ethel A Bump

This is a card from the Memorial Board at the funeral that was OK to post on this website - Kathryn (daughter)


Dear Phyllis,
"I will not weep for the loss....
I shall smile for the gift!"

Via con Dios dear lady.

With love,
Barbara Gormley

I have known Phyllis for my entire life. She had a special friendship with my mother Kathy Bishop and helped to raise me in the Shepherd family. I grew up in the nursery under her care along with my siblings and Karin and Lauren Baard. I have a comical photo of me sitting in Phyllis' lap at 6 months old trying to pull her hair out! Phyllis ran a "babysitting bootcamp" for Karin and me. She taught us everything we know from how to burp a baby to (gasp) how to change diapers! I have been...

This was My Words to My Mother at the Service,

My Dear Friends and Family,
Today is a Day Our Lord has made , Let Us REJOYCE and Be GLAD in IT !

Today June 18th We Celebrate the Life on Earth of My Mother - Phyllis Gendvilas 12-21-1931 / 06-04-2008

Today is Definetly a Time to Rejoyce & not Morn, for My Mother has been since June 4th in Heaven with Our Father God & Lord Jesus Christ. We Celebrate because I know in my heart that she had a Relationship with Jesus....

This was a special part of the Funeral Service for my mom when Steve Davis read this poem he wrote for my mom when she retired from the nursery at the church.
(I was able to scan it in with character recognition - got to love technology)

A POEM IN THE SPIRIT OF Dr. Seuss

Once there was, upon a time,
Oh dear, oh my, I hope this will rhyme...
You see, when you have a name like "Phyllis"
not much matches except... why sure ... Gendvilas!

How handy these names...