James W. Phillips, 94, died Thursday, Oct. 23, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.
Born in North Carolina, he lived and worked on a farm in South Jersey before moving to Jamesburg, where he lived for 23 years, and then to Hagerstown, Md. He returned to Dayton, in South Brunswick, where he lived since 1983. Mr. Phillips began his 37-year career with Mack Motors in New Brunswick, Plainfield and lastly in Hagerstown, working in the heat treatment department, and retired in 1979.
His outside interests included raising chickens, gardening, hunting and fishing. A lifelong ability to fix any gasoline engine made him an indispensable member of any neighborhood he lived in, and his willingness to help was well known.
His wife, Dorothy died in 2001. He is survived by a daughter, Patty William and her husband, Joseph, of Hillsville, Va.; two sons, Harry J. and his wife, Donna, of West Jefferson, N.C., and George and his wife, Virginia, of East Brunswick; and five grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were Saturday, Oct. 25, at the M. David DeMarco Funeral Home, 205 Rhode Hall Road, Monroe. Interment followed in Franklin Memorial Park Cemetery, North Brunswick.

