Obituary for Reverend Phillip Reed
Phillip Douglas Reed passed into the eternal care of his Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ on Saturday, January 4, 2020, in Burleson, TX.
Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday, January 9, 2019 at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 4513 Williams Road, Fort Worth, TX, 76116. Interment: Following service on January 9, 2019 at Smithfield Cemetery, North Richland Hills.
Phil was born at Millington NAS, TN, on April 11, 1949, to Howard Philip and Bobbie Jean Hollebeke Reed.
After attending schools in four states and in Germany, he graduated from Gulfport East High School in Gulfport, MS. He later graduated from Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX, and from the Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, IN.
He served in the US Army from 1970-1977. He served as a minister for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in Panama City, Panama; Ennis, TX; Marysville, WA; Wautaga, TX; and Burleson, TX.
Phillip was preceded in death by his father, Howard Reed, in 1998; and by his first wife, Beverly Buddin Reed, in 2012.
He is survived by his mother, Bobbie J Reed, of Lawrenceville, GA; his wife, Zeita Solmes Reed; his son, Mark Phillip Reed; granddaughters, Rhiannon and Avalon Reed of Bothell, WA; great-grandson, Lucian Reed of Bothell, WA; and sister Bobbie E Reed and brother-in-law Donald K Schwarz of Lawrenceville, GA.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Redeemer Lutheran Church, 4513 Williams Road, Fort Worth, TX.
Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday, January 9, 2019 at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 4513 Williams Road, Fort Worth, TX, 76116. Interment: Following service on January 9, 2019 at Smithfield Cemetery, North Richland Hills.
Phil was born at Millington NAS, TN, on April 11, 1949, to Howard Philip and Bobbie Jean Hollebeke Reed.
After attending schools in four states and in Germany, he graduated from Gulfport East High School in Gulfport, MS. He later graduated from Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX, and from the Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, IN.
He served in the US Army from 1970-1977. He served as a minister for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in Panama City, Panama; Ennis, TX; Marysville, WA; Wautaga, TX; and Burleson, TX.
Phillip was preceded in death by his father, Howard Reed, in 1998; and by his first wife, Beverly Buddin Reed, in 2012.
He is survived by his mother, Bobbie J Reed, of Lawrenceville, GA; his wife, Zeita Solmes Reed; his son, Mark Phillip Reed; granddaughters, Rhiannon and Avalon Reed of Bothell, WA; great-grandson, Lucian Reed of Bothell, WA; and sister Bobbie E Reed and brother-in-law Donald K Schwarz of Lawrenceville, GA.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Redeemer Lutheran Church, 4513 Williams Road, Fort Worth, TX.