Ethel Phillips, born in New York City, July 28, 1926, died peacefully in her sleep on March 12, 2011, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Ethel grew up in Glen Cove, Long Island. She was a New York debutante and after attending Parson’s School of Design she went onto teaching elementary schoolchildren in New York City before starting a family of her own.
A woman full of unleashed energy and enthusiasm, she helped run the Mad River Ski School with her husband, Bud Phillips, during the winter months and chartered fishing boats with Bud out of Little Compton, Rhode Island, in the summer. She was always looking for new adventures and traveled the world in search of big game fish. And her love and passion for the ocean brought her success in many international deep sea fishing tournaments, where she won international titles and held many woman’s world records for deep sea fishing.
A loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, she is survived by her daughters: Lucy Eaton, of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Kathy Michalove of Stonington, CT, Krietta Phillips of Warren, VT, and Noel Hallisey of Carbondale, Colorado, as well as seven grandchildren and eight great- grandchildren.
