Annie Pearl Phillips

07/14/1948 - 08/30/2024

Obituary For Annie Pearl Phillips

“Servant of God, well done! Rest from thy loved employ, the battle fought, the victory won, Enter thy master’s joy.”

Annie Pearl Phillips, 76, passed on Friday, August 30, 2024 in Smiths, AL.

Funeral service will be held 2:00 p.m. EST Saturday, September 7, 2024 at Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church located at 5230 Lee County Rd 240, Phenix City, AL with Rev. Pryce Battle, pastor, officiating. Interment to follow in the church cemetery. Public visitation is from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday, September 6, 2024.

Mrs. Annie Pearl Phillips, fondly known as “Pearl,” was born on July 14, 1948, in Lee County, Alabama, to the late Eunice Edwards and the late Annie Ruth Stovall Edwards Knox.

Pearl accepted Christ at a young age at Shady Grove C.M.E. Church, Salem, AL where she served as the Youth Director and represented her church at different conferences. Later, she became a dedicated member of Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Phenix City, AL, under the pastorage of the late Dr. J. H. Flakes, Jr. Pearl served faithfully as a choir member, Matron, Vacation Bible School Director and teacher and Chair of the Christian Education Ministry. Her past servant duties include serving on the Hospitality Ministry, church van driver and an usher. Her duties extended beyond her church home, as she was also an active participant in East Alabama Baptist Progressive Association, always representing her church as a delegate in the various ministries of East Alabama Association to include serving on the registration committee, participating with the matrons and chair of the Miss East Alabama Pageant. Pearl also served as the Chair of East Alabama Association/Mt. Calvary Association Religious College Day. For many years, Pearl represented Good Hope as a delegate to the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education. The last National Baptist Congress of Christian Education she attended was this year in June 2024 in Memphis, Tennessee.

Educated in the Lee County School System, she was a proud graduate of Wacoochee High School, Class of 1967. She was a graduate of Meadows College and attended CVCC and retired from the Lee County School Board of Education. She was active in politics, serving as a member of the Lee County NAACP and a committee member of the Campaign to Elect George “Tootie” Bandy as a poll watcher. Pearl cherished spending time with her family and friends, and she found joy in cooking, singing, talking on the phone, and attending church. Pearl spent many hours cooking delicious meals entertaining family, friends, pastors and ministers and their wives in the Phillips’ home. She also did catering for different events and activities for family and friends.

In addition to her parents, Pearl was preceded in death by her sons, Marcus Phillips and Maurice Conrad Phillips; her three brothers, Roland Edwards, Willie Edwards, and Walter Edwards.

Pearl’s memories will live on in the hearts of her beloved and devoted husband, Moses Phillips, Jr.; her two sons, Cavender Dwayne Phillips and Moses (Tamiko) Phillips, III; her sister, Vickey Shephard; her five grandchildren, Malik Phillips, Dashon Phillips, DaQuan Phillips, Tiara Phillips, and Tataynna Phillips; 12 nieces to include her niece, Kamaria Edwards whom she raised as a daughter; four nephews; three sisters-in-law, Frankie Mae Phillips, Rebecca O’Neal, and Jessie Edwards and three close friends, who were dear to her heart, Evone Taylor, Terry Baker, and Mary Preer. Pearl also leaves behind a multitude of cherished memories with her extended family and friends.

Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. Matthew 25:23

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