Funeral Homily for Phyllis Posey-The Rev Melanie Lemburg
The Very Rev. Melanie Lemburg Funeral Homily_Phyllis Posey June 30, 2025 Phyllis Posey was a nurse all the time, on or off the clock. She could get anything done. She appreciated efficiency. She was frugal, so much so that she would never throw anything away, even after it was expired. And she was brutally practical. Her gifts always had a purpose: socks, flashlights, blankets. She was endearingly persnickety. Her husband Frank would refer to her as “a little, sawed-off Yankee woman” because she was such a spitfire. And she embraced this designation with humor; when she’d call her friend Beth Wall she’d start the call saying, “This is your Yankee friend.” Beth shared with me how one time her husband was having chest pain, and he refused to go to the hospital, so she called Phyllis. Phyllis said, “Let me talk to him. ...