Catherine Phillips
Kentucky Post, Thursday, 31 January 1957, page 17
Submitted by Carol Sanman 13 April 2020
NORTHERN KENTUCKY DEATH
Mrs. Catherine Phillips, 60 16th street, South Newport, mother of the Rev. John McDermott, fourth-year theology student at St. Patrick College, Mamooth, Ireland, died Tuesday at St. Luke Hospital, Ft. Thomas, at the age of 56.
Requiem High Mass will be sung at 9:30 a.m. Friday at St. Vincent de Paul Church following prayers at 9 a.m. at the Muehlenkamp funeral home, Newport. Burial will be in St. Stephen Cemetery.
Friends may call after 3 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home; where members of the Daughters of Isabella will meet at 7:30 p.m. and member of the Altar Society at 8:30 p.m.
Mrs. Phillips was a member of the Altar Society of St. Vincent de Paul Church, Newport; a director of Newport Deanery; the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women; Newport Council, Daughters of Isabella, and the Skyline Homemakers Club.
She leaves her husband, Walter Phillips, Sr.; five daughters, Mrs. Nancy Rodau, Newport; Mrs. Kathleen Davis, Kirkwood, Mo.; Mrs. Dorothy Rueter, Cincinnati; and Mrs. Janet Linse and Mrs. Gay Lukens, both of Ft. Thomas; two other sons, Walter, Jr. of Newport; and Airman 1/c James McDermott, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio; two sisters, Mrs. Helen Bathiany and Mrs. Mary Foellger, both of Ft. Thomas; three brothers, Leo Gunning, Cincinnati; Bryan Gunning, Covington; and Frank Gunning, Newport, and 12 grandchildren.