Graveside services for Dixie Lee Phillips Kellerhals, 83, of New Braunfels, will be at 11:15 a.m. Friday at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. A memorial service will
Mar 3, 2021
Dixie Lee Phillips Kellerhals, 83, passed away on February 7, 2021 in New Braunfels, Texas. She was born May 10, 1937, in State Center, Iowa, the first child and only daughter of Lewis and Hazel Homer Phillips. Dixie was raised on a farm in Central Iowa starting school in Zearing in 1943 and graduating from the same school in 1955. Dixie loved sports and performing. She was a member of the girls’ basketball team, music groups, clubs, concert and marching band, a drum majorette, cheerleader and graduated as Salutatorian of her class. Her childhood ambition was to be a teacher so after graduation she entered Iowa State Teachers College where she was a member of Delta Delta Phi Sorority and received a two-year elementary teaching certificate in 1957.