Luella Phipps

Luella Phipps, 86, of Berkeley Springs, died Thursday, January 31, 2013 at her home while under the care of Hospice of the Panhandle.

Born January 6, 1927 at Poplar Fork, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late William and Elizabeth Myers French.

She was of the Protestant faith.

She attended public schools in Scott Deport, W.Va.

She had worked as a cook with Southern Belle Truck Stop in Berkeley Springs and had been a homemaker in recent years.

She liked cooking and flower gardening.

She is survived by two daughters, Linda Mae Iden, Hancock and Shirley Jean Kuykendall, Berkeley Springs; tw sons, Richard Evans, Jr., Hancock and Elmer Ray Evans, Berkeley Springs; 10 grandchildren; six step-grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Elmer Guy Evans on October 14, 1964 and her second husband, Wesley Willard Phipps on June 9, 1984.

Funeral services were Saturday, February 2 at Helsley-Johnson Funeral Home & Cremation Center, Berkeley Springs, with Rev. Dr. Robert S. Osborne officiating. Interment was in Greenway Cemetery.