Black Rock- Juanita Louise Phillips, 94, passed away Friday, April 2, 2020 at Lawrence Hall Nursing Center in Walnut Ridge.  Born September 16, 1925 near Denton, she was the daughter of Perry Douglas and Mary Elizabeth (Beary) Culver.   During WWII she packed parachutes at Great Bend, Kansas for soldiers preparing for combat.  After the war, she returned to Denton and was a homemaker.  Juanita was a member of New Hope Baptist Church near Smithville.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Gurden Phillips; a son, Danny Phillips; her parents, Douglas and Mary Elizabeth (Beary) Culver; a brother, Donald Culver; a sister, Aileen Mount.

Survivors include a son, Gary Phillips and wife, Karen of Black Rock; a sister, Ella Oleva Jackson of Jonesboro; four grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren; and daughter-in-law, Lesia Phillips of Black Rock.

Graveside services will be Sunday, April 5, 2020 in Holobaugh Cemetery near Black Rock at 2 p.m.  Harold Russell will officiate.  All arrangements are under the direction of Cox Funeral Home in Walnut Ridge.

Honored to serve as pallbearers are Clay Phillips, Austin Phillips, Ryan Phillips, Lynn Haskins, Joe Wallis, and Daniel Sloan.

In order to comply with the directives by Governor Hutchinson and the guidlines of the CDC pertaining to the corona virus anyone attending is required to keep a distance of six feet apart from another individual.

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