Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, May 19, 1990 TAG: 9005190010
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: ABINGDON LENGTH: Medium
William Spurgeon (Bill) Phillips, age 58, died Wednesday, May 16, 1990, at the Henrico Doctor's Hospital, Richmond, Va. He was a native of Durham, N.C. and attended grammar school there, and graduated from Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Va., in 1949 as a 1st Lt. He was a graduate of the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute Vietnam Training Center, Washington, D.C.; the U.S. Army Special Warfare School; the National Police Field Force Training School in Dalat, South Vietnam; U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Vung-Taum, South Vietnam; and the International Police Academy, Washington, D.C. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1949 until 1952, during the Korean War. He also served as Armorer in the U.S. Marine Corp Reserve, Portsmouth, Va., for four years. From 1969 until the Cease Fire Agreement with North Vietnam in 1973, he served with the U.S. Department of State as area Public Safety Advisor and Marine Police Advisor in the Providences of Kein Giang and Tunen-Duc and the City of Cam-Ranh in South Vietnam. He was a Virginia State Police Trooper from 1952 to 1969, serving in the Tidewater area. He was the Chief of Police in the Town of Abingdon from 1973 until 1988. He was a member of the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police; a Lt. Governor, Division 8 of Kiwanis International; the Abingdon Lodge #48 AF & AM; the Washington County Post 12 of the American Legion; and the National Rifle Association. He was also a member of the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd. Surviving are his wife, Sigrid Hagen Phillips; two daughters, Bonnie Lee Hess, Belspring, Va.; Catherine L. Barbour, Williamsburg, Va.; one son, Mark A. Phillips, Amherst; one brother, Jack E. Phillips, Bartlesville, Okla.; two granddaughters. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:00 p.m. Saturday in the Farris Funeral Chapel, Abingdon, with Father Harris L. Scott, III officiating. Burial will be in the Quantico National Cemetery, Quantico, Va., at 11:00 a.m. Monday, May 21, 1990. Flowers will be accepted or contributions may be made to the Hargrave Military School, Chatham, Va. 24531. Farris Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
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