Joseph immigrated to the United States with his parents and brother Peter as a young child on May 26, 1914 on the ship SS Stampalia.
His surname was later changed from DiFilippantonio to Phillips.
He lost his life by drowning in a boating accident.
Three men drowned after their 32-foot fishing boat crashed against a submerged object in the Delaware Bay and the craft partially sank. The boat was a converted Navy boat, named "Missie". It was the worst boating accident affecting Salem County residents in the memory of area residents. The tragedy was between the head of Mad Horse Creek and the Delaware River.
Services were held at the Ashcraft Funeral Home, Penns Grove. There was no viewing. Interment at Lawnside Cemetery, Woodstown, NJ.
Surviving are his wife, Anna; a son, Joseph J., Penns Grove; a brother, Peter DiFilippantonio, Penns Grove, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Isadore, Wayne, PA.
Phillips, an auto mechanic, had been with the DuPont Company nearly 40 years when he retired in 1963.
His surname was later changed from DiFilippantonio to Phillips.
He lost his life by drowning in a boating accident.
Three men drowned after their 32-foot fishing boat crashed against a submerged object in the Delaware Bay and the craft partially sank. The boat was a converted Navy boat, named "Missie". It was the worst boating accident affecting Salem County residents in the memory of area residents. The tragedy was between the head of Mad Horse Creek and the Delaware River.
Services were held at the Ashcraft Funeral Home, Penns Grove. There was no viewing. Interment at Lawnside Cemetery, Woodstown, NJ.
Surviving are his wife, Anna; a son, Joseph J., Penns Grove; a brother, Peter DiFilippantonio, Penns Grove, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Isadore, Wayne, PA.
Phillips, an auto mechanic, had been with the DuPont Company nearly 40 years when he retired in 1963.
Joseph immigrated to the United States with his parents and brother Peter as a young child on May 26, 1914 on the ship SS Stampalia.
His surname was later changed from DiFilippantonio to Phillips.
He lost his life by drowning in a boating accident.
Three men drowned after their 32-foot fishing boat crashed against a submerged object in the Delaware Bay and the craft partially sank. The boat was a converted Navy boat, named "Missie". It was the worst boating accident affecting Salem County residents in the memory of area residents. The tragedy was between the head of Mad Horse Creek and the Delaware River.
Services were held at the Ashcraft Funeral Home, Penns Grove. There was no viewing. Interment at Lawnside Cemetery, Woodstown, NJ.
Surviving are his wife, Anna; a son, Joseph J., Penns Grove; a brother, Peter DiFilippantonio, Penns Grove, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Isadore, Wayne, PA.
Phillips, an auto mechanic, had been with the DuPont Company nearly 40 years when he retired in 1963.
His surname was later changed from DiFilippantonio to Phillips.
He lost his life by drowning in a boating accident.
Three men drowned after their 32-foot fishing boat crashed against a submerged object in the Delaware Bay and the craft partially sank. The boat was a converted Navy boat, named "Missie". It was the worst boating accident affecting Salem County residents in the memory of area residents. The tragedy was between the head of Mad Horse Creek and the Delaware River.
Services were held at the Ashcraft Funeral Home, Penns Grove. There was no viewing. Interment at Lawnside Cemetery, Woodstown, NJ.
Surviving are his wife, Anna; a son, Joseph J., Penns Grove; a brother, Peter DiFilippantonio, Penns Grove, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Isadore, Wayne, PA.
Phillips, an auto mechanic, had been with the DuPont Company nearly 40 years when he retired in 1963.
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