Phyllis Sanders

1938 - 2025

Phyllis E. Sanders (Wagner), age 86, of Carl Junction, Missouri, passed away on Friday, August 15, 2025, at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin.

Phyllis was born September 11, 1938, in Bremer County, Iowa, to Ralph and Martha Wagner.

On July 22, 1956, she married F. Alan Sanders at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and together they were blessed with four sons. After Alan's retirement, they moved to Carl Junction.

She was a faithful member for many years of Grace Episcopal Church in Carthage, Missouri. Before moving to Missouri she was a long-time member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Cedar Falls, where she and Alan raised their family. Many will remember her active involvement in serving others. She greatly enjoyed being involved in Boy Scouts of America, Rainbows for Children and she also served as secretary of Briarbrook Golf Course. A grandson describes her this way, "Phyllis was a golfer, a seamstress, a bookkeeper, a talented gardener, an unbelievably efficient cook, a spry dancer who kept wearing her partners out right up to the week she went into the hospital, and a card sharp."

Preceding her in death are her husband, her parents, and a grandson, Collin Sanders.

She is survived by her four sons F. Kevin Sanders and wife Janet of Cedar Falls, IA; Daryl Sanders and wife Andrea of Cedar Falls, IA; Kendal Sanders and wife Tracy of Windsor, CO; and Darin Sanders and wife Sally of Fort Collins, CO; nine grandchildren: Blake, Brandon, Trevor, Lucas, Michael, Ryan and Nathan Sanders, Samantha and Liam Kellogg; five great-grandsons and three great-granddaughters, and her brothers Gerald and George Wagner.

A funeral service for Phyllis has been scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Monday, October 13, 2025 at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Cedar Falls.