Phyllis Esther Chase Lotgering was born at the family home in Willowdale Township, Dickinson Co., Kansas on Dec. 30, 1933.

Phyllis died at Yellville, Arkansas Oct. 22, 2025. She was the fifth child born to J. Harvey Chase and Esther Thayer Chase.

Phyllis attended school at Talmage and Abilene and graduated from Abilene High School in 1951.

She married Gene Elmore Lotgering in California May 11, 1962. Two children were born, Arnold in 1963 and Susan Renee in 1964.

Phyllis lived most of her life in southern California where she was an executive secretary at Rohr Aircraft and Rockwell International. After retiring Gene and Phyllis lived in Arizona and in 2002 moved to Mountain Home, Arkansas.

She was proceeded in death by her two brothers, Morris Thayer Chase and Stuart Harvey Chase and

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