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1925 - 2005 (79 years)
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Name |
Miriam Virginia Phillips |
Birth |
23 Dec 1925 |
Ashe County, North Carolina [1, 2] |
Gender |
Female |
Death |
12 Dec 2005 |
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia [1, 2] |
Burial |
Mountlawn Memorial Park,North Wilkesboro,Wilkes Co.,NC [2] |
Person ID |
I1788 |
The Hennessee Family |
Last Modified |
23 Mar 2013 |
Family |
Kiffin Anderson Hennessee, b. 20 May 1925, Yancey County, North Carolina d. 5 Oct 2003, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia (Age 78 years) |
Marriage |
1945 |
Spartanburg, South Carolina [3] |
Children |
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Family ID |
F676 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Miriam Virginia Phillips Hennessee (1925-2005) Miriam worked for several years in the Bank of North Wilkesboro, as a teller, where she was known and trusted by the entire Wilkes Community. Her family entrusted the bookkeeping for its real property to her for her whole adult life. But her real passion was homemaking, in the grand style of Southern women for many generations past, and her table was always overflowing with fresh baked biscuits, pies and cakes complementing big plates of fried chicken and garden vegetables. For more than fifty years, her husband, her children, and her grandchildren, and many of their friends, rushed to sit at her table and praise her cooking, to her great delight and joy.
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Miriam Phillips Hennessee, beloved wife of the late Kiffin Hennessee, passed away early on Monday, Dec. 12, 2005, at Dogwood Forest Assisted Living facility in Atlanta, Ga. She had fallen into a sharp decline over the past three months as a result of Alzheimer's disease. She died as she lay sleeping, in her own bed, without pain and without suffering. Miriam grew up in Ashe and Wilkes counties, the daughter of G.W. Phillips and Josephine Dillard Phillips.
She attended Lenoir-Rhyne College. Miriam married Kiffin Hennessee of Burnsville on April 30, 1945. The two lived for a time in Burnsville, and later in Asheville and Morganton, before they settled permanently in Wilkesboro, where they resided for over forty years together. Miriam will be much missed by her sisters, Margaret Jenkins and Joan Watson of West Jefferson; and her brothers, Howard Phillips and Bruce Phillips of North Wilkesboro; and their wives, husbands and many children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Miriam worked for several years in the Bank of North Wilkesboro as a teller, where she was known and trusted by the entire Wilkes community.
Her family entrusted the bookkeeping for its real property to her for her whole adult life. But her real passion was homemaking, in the grand style of Southern women for many generations past, and her table was always overflowing with fresh baked biscuits, pies and cakes complementing big plates of fried chicken and garden vegetables. For more than fifty years, her husband, her children, her grandchildren and many of their friends rushed to sit at her table and praise her cooking, to her great delight and joy.
Her family knows and trusts that she is with our Lord God, and that if there is any need to feed multitudes, or to preparest a table in the presence of enemies, that the Lord will call on her. Miriam leaves behind her two sons, Keith and his wife Hella of Houston, Texas, and Philip and his wife Ellen of Atlanta; six grandchildren, Karl Hennessee of Toulouse, France, Christiane Hennessee of Honolulu, Hawaii, Katie Hennessee of Vienna, Austria, Alison Hennessee, a sophomore at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Ian Hennessee of Atlanta and Zachary Hennessee of Atlanta; and a great-grandson, Nicky Hennessee of Toulouse, France. All of the grandchildren inherited an abundance of good looks, intelligence, talent and charm from their much-loved grandmother.
There will be a viewing at Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home in North Wilkesboro from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 19. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, at First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro, followed by a brief burial service at Mountlawn Memorial Park. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro, where she and Kiffin were members from 1958 until their deaths.
Published in Winston-Salem Journal on December 18, 2005
- Miriam Phillips Hennessee, beloved wife of the late Kiffin Hennessee, passed away early on December 12th at the Dogwood Forest Assisted Living facility in Atlanta, Georgia. She had fallen into a sharp decline over the past three months as a result of Alzeimer's disease. She died as she lay sleeping, in her own bed, without pain and without suffering.
Funeral Services will be at the First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro at followed by a brief burial service at Mountlawn Memorial Park.
Miriam leaves behind her two sons, Keith of Houston, Texas, with his wife Hella; and Philip of Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Ellen; six grandchildren, Karl Hennessee of Toulouse, France; Christiane Hennessee of Honolulu, Hawaii; Katie Hennessee of Vienna, Austria; Alison Hennessee, a sophomore at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta; Ian Hennessee of Atlanta; and Zachary Hennessee of Atlanta; and one great grandson, Nicky Hennessee in Toulouse, France. All of the grandchildren inherited an abundance of good looks, intelligence, talent and charm from their much loved grandmother.
Miriam grew up in Ashe and Wilkes Counties, the daughter of G.W. Phillips and Josephine Dillard Phillips. She attended Lenoir Rhyne College. Miriam married Kiffin Hennessee of Burnsville on April 30, 1945. The two lived for a time in Burnsville, and later in Asheville and Morganton, before they settled permanently in Wilkesboro, where they resided for over forty years together.
Miriam will be much missed by her sisters, Margaret Jenkins and Joan Watson of West Jefferson, and her brothers, Howard Phillips and Bruce Phillips of North Wilkesboro, and their wives, husbands and many children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Miriam worked for several years in the Bank of North Wilkesboro, as a teller, where she was known and trusted by the entire Wilkes Community. Her family entrusted the bookkeeping for its real property to her for her whole adult life. But her real passion was homemaking, in the grand style of Southern women for many generations past, and her table was always overflowing with fresh baked biscuits, pies and cakes complementing big plates of fried chicken and garden vegetables. For more than fifty years, her husband, her children, and her grandchildren, and many of their friends, rushed to sit at her table and praise her cooking, to her great delight and joy.
Her family knows and trusts that she is with our Lord God, and that if there is any need to feed multitudes, or to preparest a table in the presence of enemies, that the Lord will call on her. [2]
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