Walter R. Phillips

August 6, 1953 - February 8, 2012

Mr. Walter Robert (Bobby) Phillips passed away Wednesday, February 8, 2012, at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Services will be held 2:00 p.m., Saturday, February 11, 2012, at Cox Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Al Wilbourn will officiate. The interment will be held at White's Bridge Cemetery in Miller County, Georgia. The family will receive friends 6:00-8:00 p.m., Friday, February 10, 2012, at Cox Funeral Home Chapel. Walter Robert Phillips was born August 6, 1953 in Miller County, Georgia, to Maston O'Neal Phillips and Ruth Donalson Phillips. He worked as a heavy equipment operator. Bobby has been married to Chirl Jenkins Phillips for 15 years. He loved to fish, go camping, and watch old westerns. He and Chirl enjoyed riding motorcycles. Bobby would tell you one of his greatest pleasures was going to Biloxi to gamble. Bobby Phillips is survived by his wife, Chirl Phillips; children, Scott Phillips, Neal Ingram, Peresia Haire and husband, Joey, Pam West and husband, Wyndell, and Paula Kirk and husband, Dean, all of Bainbridge; brothers, Wilson Phillips of Ft. Gaines and Maston Phillips and wife, Pat of Colquitt; sisters, Dollie Childree, Lois Wilburn and husband, Al, Katie Dasher and husband, Jack, and Myra Strang and husband, Jim, all of Bainbridge; 7 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by his parents, son, Neal Phillips, a sister and 2 brothers.