Deane Phipps

Funeral services for Mrs. Laura Deane Phipps 80 of the Mineral Springs Community of Overton County near Monterey will be held Sunday March 18 at 3 p.m. in the Chapel of Horner Funeral Home with the Rev. Tony Phipps officiating. Interment will follow in Welch Memorial Cemetery. Mrs. Phipps died Tuesday evening March 13, 2012 in Cookeville Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Phipps was born July 9, 1931 in Monterey, Tennessee to the late Nathan and Daisy Deane Castleman Stringer. She was a member of Sand Springs Baptist Church. She worked for the former Monterey Corner Grill; Ely & Walker Shirt Factory; and retired from Adams USA. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband James Dow "Jim"� Phipps; two sons, Terry Phipps and Tim Phipps; sister, Tennie Henderson; and four brothers, Glenn Stringer, Carl Stringer, Ivan Stringer and Nathan Stringer Jr. Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Eddie & Debbe Phipps of Fairborn, OH; two grandchildren, Gregory Allen Phipps, and Amanda Joyce Morris and husband Matthew; three-great grandchildren, Erik Matthew Morris, Caitlin Nora Morris and Laura Jean Olson; brother and sister-in-law, David & Sennie Stringer of Spring TX; and two sisters and a brother-in-law, Noweisa Harris of Oceana, CA, and Nancy & Curtis Conley of Crossville, TN. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Mrs. Family will receive friends Saturday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. until service time at the funeral home.