Glenrose Phillips

FULLERTON NEBRASKA-Glenrose LaVerne Phillips, 91, of Fullerton, passed away peacefully on Sunday, November 9, 2025, at Valley View Assisted Living in Fullerton.

Funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, November 15, 2025, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Farnhamville, IA, with Pastor Aaron Zimmerman officiating. Burial will follow at Gowrie Township Cemetery in Gowrie, Iowa. Visitation will be 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, November 14th at Laufersweiler Palmer & Sons Funeral Home in Gowrie, IA. Memorials may be left to the discretion of the family. Laufersweiler Palmer & Sons Funeral Home of Gowrie, IA and Palmer-Santin Funeral Home of Fullerton, NE are serving the family.

Glenrose was born on December 27, 1933, to Edwin and Lois (Lay) Luedtke in Omaha, NE. She grew up on a farm near Belgrade, NE and attended country school through the eighth grade before graduating in 1952 from Fullerton High School in Fullerton, NE. After graduation, she moved to Omaha, where she worked as a telephone operator.

During a trip to California with her sister, Glenrose met Charles "Chuck" Ewing on a blind date. The thirteenth time she saw him, she was walking down the aisle to marry him on March 15, 1953, at United Methodist Church in Fullerton. The couple made their home in Farnhamville, Iowa, and in the early 1960s, purchased a farm outside Rinard, Iowa, where they raised their family and built their life together until Chuck's passing in 1975.

In 1977, Glenrose married Art G. Moeller, and they lived near Somers, Iowa, until his passing in 2000. A year later, she reconnected with her former classmate, Larry Phillips, and the two were united in marriage in Fullerton. Glenrose made Fullerton her home for the remainder of her life.

Glenrose and Larry loved traveling and camping throughout the United States, even taking their camper all the way to Alaska. They also both loved watching Nebraska football. Above all, Glenrose cherished time spent with her family. She was a longtime member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Farnhamville, IA, and later joined Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in Fullerton, NE.

Glenrose is survived by her husband, Larry Phillips of Fullerton; her children, Terry (Lisa) Ewing of Maryville, MO, Lori (Ron) Prince of Somers, IA, and Karen (Randy) Dierenfield of Ankeny, IA; and nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her stepchildren, Jean (Larry) Johnson, Art H. (Pam) Moeller, Margaret (Terry) Stull, Karl (Mary) Moeller, Brenda (Mark) Durbahn, Linda (Walt) Brock, Bruce (Laurie) Phillips, and Jennel Steele; stepdaughter-in-law, Kerri Moeller; sister-in-law, Delores Luedtke; and many step-grandchildren, step-great-grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Charles Ewing and Art Moeller; stepson, Brian Moeller; stepdaughter, Lisa Phillips; and siblings, Carol Luedtke, Lyle Luedtke, and Janet Kratzer.