Anne Phillips, 99, passed away July 19, 2016 at Kimball Farms in Lenox where she had been living since 1999.
Anne was an unsentimental woman with an incredible passion for life. She was a political human being. She went to Brooklyn College and studied science, a rare thing for a woman born to a working class family in 1917. She broke gender barriers in her career as a biochemist before she married, in 1951. She continued her fight for peace and equality throughout her life with her time, her boundless energy and her money.
She returned to work in the New York City schools, mentoring students in her junior high school laboratory.
She moved, with her husband, Bob, to Lenox in 1999 where she enjoyed the music and lectures, tended the plant room and enjoyed time with her children and grandchildren. She loved gardening and hiking and was an avid bicyclist and hiker in her youth. She continued walking in the neighborhood and nature preserves until she was 94.
Anne leaves her son, Carl Phillips, daughter, Deborah Phillips and her husband Bill Cooke, her grandchildren, Gordon Wikle and Jessica Wikle, and loving extended family and friends.
She was predeceased by her husband, Bob, and her two brothers, Mac and Will.
You can honor her memory by keeping Trump out of the White House and by making a donation to Construct Inc. or Southern Poverty Law Center.
