May 15, 2022

Sally Phelps (1935-2022):
On April 27, Sally Phelps passed away.  Born in Atlanta, she earned a BA from Rice in 1957.  She wed her college sweetheart George Phelps Jr ’57 and they enjoyed fifty-eight years of marriage before he passed away in 2016.  After teaching school in Houston, she and George moved to St Louis and then Dallas with their growing family.  Later, she became a realtor, completed a Master of Library Science in 1983 and a PhD in Philosophy in 2000.

She “was a dedicated Catholic, avid Dallas Cowboys fan, enthusiastic genealogist, a lifelong learner, deep thinker and intellectual, and reader of great literature”.  Click here for the Dallas Morning News obituary. 

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