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PRISCILLA PHELPS Obituary
PRISCILLA L. PHELPS
New Sharon
Priscilla L. Phelps, age 89, formerly of New Sharon died at Kavanagh House in Des Moines of respiratory failure on the 28th day of April 2010.
A visitation will be held at New Sharon United Methodist Church from 5 to 7 p.m. on Monday, May 3, 2010. The funeral service will begin at 10 a.m. at the New Sharon United Methodist Church with the Rev. John Battern officiating on Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Interment will follow at Friends Cemetery in New Sharon. Following interment a reception will be held at the McVay Center in New Sharon. Memorials may be made to the New Sharon United Methodist Church. Harden Funeral Home of New Sharon is handling the arrangements.
Priscilla was born on 29 May 1920 in Black Earth, Wisconsin, the third of three children to Grant and Leta Imlay. She was raised in Black Earth and upon graduating from high school attended nurses training at Methodist Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, where she met Dr. Richard E. H. Phelps. Upon the outbreak of WWII, Dr. Phelps joined the army and the couple left for San Francisco. Priscilla lived in San Francisco with Dr. Phelps until he was deployed in 1942 and then returned to Madison and worked as a nurse until Dr. Phelps returned in 1945.
Priscilla and Richard moved to New Sharon in 1946 where they raised four children: Richard E. H. Phelps II of Mingo, Thomas M. Phelps of Mingo, David A. Phelps of Johnston, and Melinda A. Phelps of Glendora, California. Priscilla Phelps is also survived by two grandchildren, Matthew Phelps of Carlisle and Maya Phelps of Mingo. She is preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Richard E. H. Phelps, her brother, Maris, an early casualty of WWII, and her sister, Helen, of Madison, Wisconsin.
Priscilla was a devoted mother and very capable. Being the wife of a small- town, family medical practitioner, she was often on her own managing what sometimes could be described as three unruly boys and a daughter. Upon Dr. Phelps' death in 2001, Priscilla moved to Des Moines where she has lived since. She will be missed.
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