Ocean City Icon Shirley Phillips, Founder of Phillips Seafood, Dies on Christmas Day
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Delmarva Now/USA Today] by Liz Holland - December 27, 2017
Shirley Flowers Phillips, who with her late husband launched a well-known seafood company, died Christmas Day at her Ocean City home, family members confirmed.
She was 95.
Phillips and her husband, Brice R. Phillips, grew up in the small Dorchester County watermen’s community of Hoopers Island, “where the A.E. Phillips & Son processing plant sourced wild crabs, fish and oysters in season from the Chesapeake Bay,” according to the company website.
The family started a small market in Ocean City in 1956 to sell their ...
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