Sister Phyllis Renee Farquarhson Peagler was born on August 22, 1950 in Trenton, New Jersey, to Doris Jean Gilliam and Robert Lee Ware. On November 29, 2020 , she made her transition and gained her wings.
Phyllis began her education at the Clara Barton Elementary School in Bordentown, New Jersey, thereafter; she enrolled and graduated from the Trenton Central High School in Trenton, NJ. Phyllis also attended the Mercer County Community College where she studied nursing. She worked for many years in the nursing field at the Greenwood House in Ewing, NJ; the Trenton State Hospital and then Enable Agency. She changed her profession and started working in the security field. She was a faithful and dedicated employee of the G4S Security Service, where she worked for eleven unbroken years. She was a dedicated member of the First Pentecostal Prayer of Faith Church, under the leadership of Bishop Arthur C. and Pastor Barbara Naylor. She served on various co1mnittees in the church including making sure that her Bishop and first lady were well taken care of.
She was predeceased by her mother and father, her grandparents, her siblings Calvin Donaldson (Tyrone), and DeWayne Anthony Ware (Shang), and her only son, Bryant A. Gilliam. Phyllis leaves to mourn her passing, her husband of 23 years, Mr. Isiah Peagler; her sister, Carolyn Gilliam; her grandchildren, Tayona Brown and Bryant Jr; her mother and father-in-law's, Betty and Johnny Botton, whom she loved so dearly, her daughter-in-law, Antoinette Gilliam, her God children Jeremiah, Caleb, Nailah, Malia Carroll; her special children, Porsche and Jamaal, Carl and Aishah Cook; her FPPF family; her nieces, Tameka, and Garla her nephews Terrance and Jamar; her special cousin Cory (Yolanda) Marinnie; other cousins, aunties, uncles. She also had some special people in her life, including Bishop Arthur C. and First lady Barbara Naylor, Debbie Naylor, Ryan Tinson, Jean and Willie Church, Mother Jerusha Jallah (Mama Jallah), Selina Boakai, Michelle, and Al McCray, Tarlow Miller, Josie Carter, Pastor and Sister Moore, Merle Mascall, Calvin Cook and Irene Pennington and a host of others whom we cannot list at this time.
Services will be 12-2pm Thursday, December 10, 2020 at Hughes Funeral Home, 324 Bellevue Ave. Interment will be at Bordentown Cemetery, Bordentown, NJ.
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