Obituary (from Town & Country News of 8 Oct. 1975): The funeral for Robert Foster Phillips, 51, of Thousand Island Park, was held Monday in the Cummings Funeral Home with Rev. Joseph Zneimer, Syracuse, officiating. Burial was in Brookside
Cemetery.Mr. Phillips, general manager and secretary of the Thousand Island Park Corp., died at 1 a.m. Saturday morning at the House of the Good Samaritan Hospital, Watertown, where he had been admitted Friday.
Contributions may be made in his name to the American Cancer Society or to the Thousand Island Park Chapel.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rosemary P. Phillips; a daughter, Miss Cranda F. Phillips, a teacher at the Brownville Elementary School; a brother, Capt. David W. Phillips, 1027 State St., a member of the Watertown Fire Department; two
nieces and a nephew.Born in Watertown May 25, 1924, he was the son of the late County Judge Crandall F. Phillips and Mrs. Irene Parker Mooney Phillips. The Phillips family spent summers at Steeles Point when Mr. Phillips was a child.
His father had served as Watertown city judge 12 years and as county judge six years. Mr. Phillips' grandfather, David Foster Phillips was general manager of the Brownville Board Company at Brownville.
Mr. Phillips was graduated from Watertown High School in 1943 and served in the Army from July 1943 to April 1946, with nine months' duty in India and a year of service in Alaska.
He attended Syracuse University one year after his discharge.
Mr. Phillips then joined the First National Exchange Bank of Clayton, which later became the Clayton office of the National Bank of Northern New York. He served with the bank 21 years and held the position of assistant cashier when he
left the bank in April 1968, to become general manager and secretary of the Thousand Island Park Corp., the position he held at the time of his death.He married Miss Rosemary G. Pelow of Clayton Sept. 25. 1948, at Clayton United Methodist Church.
Mr. Phillips served as president of the Jefferson-Lewis Bankers' Association in 1954, president of the Clayton Rotary Club in 1954, secretary of the Hawn Library, Clayton, and treasurer of the Clayton Cemetery Association.
He was a member and Past Master of the Clayton Masonic Lodge and had held every office in the lodge and was district deputy grand master in 1963.
He was a member of the Clayton American Legion, a chairman of the New York State Civil Service Commission in 1971 and an active member of the Clayton United Methodist Church, having served as a lay leader and Sunday school teacher.
Obituary (from newspaper of 19 May 1999): CLAYTON---Mildred P. Garnsey, 86, of 845 James St., died Tuesday morning at her home.
Mrs. Garnsey was a cashier at Thousand Islands Central School, retiring in 1972.
Born Nov. 4, 1912, in Clayton, daughter of Grant D. and Mary Leiderman Phillips, she graduated from Clayton High School and was a 1933 graduate of the Watertown School of Commerce.
She married W. Albert Garnsey on June 19, 1943, in Clayton Baptist parsonage with the Rev. Samuel A. MacDougall officiating. Mr. Garnsey, a self-employed carpenter, died Feb. 9, 1972.
Mrs. Garnsey was of the Lutheran faith.
Surviving are several nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, and cousins.
A brother, Herbert L. Phillips, and four sisters, Grace Phillips, Ruth Paolini, Mabel Ainsworth, and Florence Kittle, died before her.
A graveside service will be at 4 p.m. Thursday in St. Lawrence Cemetery, town of Cape Vincent.
There will be no calling hours. Arrangements are with Cummings Funeral Home, Clayton.
Donations may be made to Clayton Volunteer Fire Department.
Obituary (from newspaper of 27 July 1951): CLAYTON---Mrs. Mary Phillips, 69, widow of Grand D. Phillips and long a resident of this village, died at 2:45 Thursday afternoon at the home of her daugher, Mrs. Harry Garnsey, 2762 Chili Road,
Rochester. Suffering with diabetes, Mrs. Phillips had been in poor health for several months.Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. from her home in Clayton with Rev. Solomon A. Card, jr., pastor of the Clayton Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in the St. Lawrence Cemetery.
The survivors are a son, Herbert L. Phillips, Clayton; five daughters, Mrs. Wallace (Florence) Kittle, Clayton, Mrs. Harry (Grace) Garnsey, Rochester, Mrs. Harry (Mable) Ainsworth, Rochester, Mrs. Tulio (Ruth) Paolini, Buffalo, and Mrs.
Albert (Mildred) Garnsey, Clayton; a sister, Mrs. Peter Cardiff, Depauville; a brother, John Leiterman, Brownville, and a half brother, Adam Danenwald, Clayton; five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.Mrs. Phillips was born Jan. 22, 1882 in Germany, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Leiterman. At the age of four, she came to this country with her parents, who settled at Redwood. Mrs. Phillips attended Redwood schools.
On April 11, 1899, she was married to Grant D. Phillips of Clayton in a ceremony at Watertown. Following their marriage they lived here, where Mr. Phillips operated a farm on the Clayton-Cape Vincent Road until his death in August, 1928.
Following her husband's death, Mrs. Phillips had resided in Clayton until January, 1950, when her health caused her to join her daughter in Rochester. She had been a patient in the Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, and at the time of
her death she was living with her daughter.Mrs. Phillips was a member of the St. Lawrence Grange.