Buster Phillips dies suddenly at his home<\/strong>.\u00a0 Buster Phillips, 44, the father of nine children, died unexpectedly early Wednesday morning at his home on Yarnell Rd., Clinton Rt.4.\u00a0 The South Clinton resident was on the job Tuesday with Gilliam Excavating Co.<\/p>\n Phillips worked on Tuesday and had not been ill.\u00a0 The cause of his death had not been determined.\u00a0 He was dead on arrival at Oak Ridge Hospital at 5:20 a.m. \u00a0and physicians estimated he had died about two hours earlier.<\/p>\n The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Martin Home Funeral Home chapel, the Rev. Jimmy Riner officiating.\u00a0 Burial will be in Pleasant View Church cemetery.<\/p>\n He leaves his wife, Maggie Steadman\u00a0Phillips; five sons, Buster, Lynn, Charles Lee, Robert, David and Gary; four daughters, Mary Ann, Vickie, Karen and Linda, all of Clinton; one brother, Elmer Phillips of Clinton; a sister, Mrs. Chloe Spencer of Detroit; a half-brother, Jimmy Whaley\u00a0of Knoxville; two half-sisters, Mrs. Sephie\u00a0Edmonds of Clinton; Mrs. Norma Warren of Knoxville; and step-father, George Whaley of Clinton.<\/p>\n Clinton Courier-News<\/em>, December 2, 1971, Section 1, page 8.<\/p>\n [Transcribed by Stephanie A. Hill from photocopy of microfilm in the genealogy vertical files at Lake City Library.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obituary of Buster Phillips, 1971: Buster Phillips dies suddenly at his home.\u00a0 Buster Phillips, 44, the father of nine children, died unexpectedly early Wednesday morning at his home on Yarnell Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-m-p"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}