Basking Ridge Local Was Active Volunteer, Lover Of Cats

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Basking Ridge local and active volunteer, Elorna Lillian Phillips, 77, of died on Friday, June 1, 2018 at Sunrise Assisted Living after a long illness.

Lillian grew up in Mendham before moving to Basking Ridge in 1983 where she spent most of her life. She worked for many years at Morris County Savings Bank as an executive secretary.

She was a member of Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church in Warren, for many years, and was very active in the church. She was very active in the Somerset County VNA, and loved to help with the VNA rummage sale, and on her free time she loved bowling, and camping. She also had a love for cats, according to her Galloway & Crane Funeral Home obituary.

Lillian is predeceased by her loving husband Thomas R. Phillips in 2008. She is survived by her sister Ethel Ann Mosher, her brother Walter G. Mosher and wife Barbara. Also, survived by her goddaughter Heather, and many nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be held on Thursday at Gallaway and Crane Funeral Home, 101 S. Finley Ave., Basking Ridge from 4 to 7 p.m. Funeral Service will be held on Friday at 11 a.m. at the funeral home. Entombment will follow at Somerset Hills Memorial Park, Basking Ridge.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to the Community Care Hospice, 110 West End Ave., Somerville, NJ 08876.

(Image via Galloway & Crane Funeral Home)

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