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John Wesley Phillips was born May 3, 1942 in Long Beach California, and grew
up in Wichita Falls, Texas. He graduated from Wichita Falls Senior High in May
1960 and attended undergraduate studies at Midwestern University in
Wichita Falls. His graduate work in Biology and Geology was at Texas Tech in Lubbock.
In June of 1965, Mr. Phillips was hired by the National Park Service as Naturalist at Petrified Forest National Park in Northeastern Arizona. Since that time he has worked at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona and the Grand Canyon in Arizona and Big Bend National Park In Texas. He worked three years at Yorktown Battlefield in Virginia and six years in Everglades National Park in Florida before coming to Lake Meredith in November 1975. He is married to the former Roberta Safarik of Genoa Illinois and has two children, Theresa Younger who lives with her family in Pampa and John who lives in Amarillo.
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