| Funeral services were held Monday, June 25, 1990, at the Evangelical Free Church in Oakland, Nebraska, for Phillip Alfred Geary, 85, who died suddenly June 21, 1990, at the Oakland Heights Nursing Home where he had lived since January, 1987. Rev. Ken Cooper of the Oakland Evangelical Free Church and Rev. Dale Sherman, his nephew of Oro Grand, California, officiated. Burial was in the New England Cemetery west of Herman.
Phillip Alfred Geary was born May 3, 1905, at rural Herman, the fifth son of Ernest Charles and Angeline Patrick Geary. He attended the New England School west of Herman. He moved to southeastern Colorado in 1923, where he was engaged in custom farming and dairying.
He married Erma Almyra Mast February 14, 1933. Seven children were born to them.
They returned to the New England Geary farm in 1935, where he farmed until 1948. In the spring to 1948, he moved his family to Kennard, where he began a plumbing and electrical wiring business. In 1963, Phil moved to Oakland, where he expanded his business in to well drilling. He sold his business and retired in 1975, moving to Gibbon. In January, 1987, he returned to Oakland and lived at the Oakland Heights Nursing Home until death.
He was active in church work of the communities where he lived and spent three months in 1983 at Gospel Recordings in Los Angeles as a volunteer worked. While living in Kennard, he attended the Omaha Gospel Tabernacle.
Surviving him are sisters, Dorothy Kneff of Little Rock, Arkansas and Helen Hoos of Vista, California; sons, David, his wife Jeanie and their son, Kevin of Phoenix, Arizona; Phillip Ernest and his wife, Ursula and their children, Christopher, Jeffry and Jennifer of Stapleton, Nebraska; daughters, Karel and he husband, Gail Price and their children, Jamie White, Timothy, Stephen and David of Craig, Nebraska; Mary Karen and her husband, Lindsay Fleshman and their sons, David and Lindsay of Anchorage, Alaska; and Ruth Erma and her husband, David Mohar and their children, Clark and Debby of Elkhorn, Nebraska. Phil is also survived by three great-grandchildren, Benjamin, Susanna and Jonathan White and many nieces and nephews.
Pat Sok of rural Craig and Dale Sherman were soloists, accompanied by Ruth Wallerstedt of Oakland. Karel Price of Craig was pianist.
Pallbearers were Dwight Bond, Duane Bone, Harland Nelson, Wayne Nelsen, Delwin Anderson and Calvin Anderson.
Warne-Johnson Mortuary in Hooper was in charge of arrangements.
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