{"id":7054,"date":"2020-06-01T15:13:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/?p=7054"},"modified":"2020-06-01T15:13:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:13:54","slug":"matthew-eugene-phillis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/och-c.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/01\/matthew-eugene-phillis\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Eugene Phillis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matthew Eugene Phillis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 25, 1974 \u2013 May 21, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WICHITA \u2014 Matthew Eugene Phillis died Thursday, May 21, 2020. He was 46.<\/p>\n<p>He was born March 25, 1974, in Topeka, the son of Gene and Judy White Phillis.<\/p>\n<p>He married his wife and best friend, DeAun Bird Phillis Aug. 1, 2009, in Wichita. She survives.<\/p>\n<p>Matt graduated from Seaman High School in 1992. He graduated from Marine Mechanics Institute, in Orlando, Fla., in 2012, as a certified boat mechanic.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of South Rock Christian Church, Derby. Matt loved to work on his grandfather&#8217;s farm, in Melvern. He also enjoyed camping, fishing and hunting.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his father, Gene Phillis, and grandparents, Alvin and Lillian Phillis and Lloyd and Dorothy White.<\/p>\n<p>Besides his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Hannah, Wichita; his mother, Judy Phillis Bradley and husband, Tom, Blue Mound; a sister, Jennifer Sommers and husband, Dan, Burleson, Texas; two brothers, Joshua Phillis and wife, Angie, Keller, Texas, and Zachary Phillis, Topeka; and several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial contributions may be made to Hannah Phillis College Fund, Philip Bird, 2011 N. 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