Kristine Louise Phillips

Kristine Louise Phillips passed from this world to the next on August 12, 2021 after a long illness. She leaves behind her bereft family; parents, Richard and Joyce Phillips; children, Corey and Aubrey Geddings; sisters, Marta Phillips and Holly Kranzmann; business partner and honorary brother, Matt Kraycinovich; grandson, Jack Wade; nieces, Madeleine Phillips, and Alyssa and Sydney Kranzmann; and uncle, aunt and cousin James, Beverly and Kelly Littlepage. She was predeceased by her grandparents, Alfred and Ellen Phillips, and Harold and Gwendolyn Littlepage; and infant sister, Kara Phillips.

Kris was born in Chicago, IL on September 17, 1959. She graduated from Butler University in 1981 and earned a Broadcasting Certificate from the Broadcast Center in St. Louis in 1982.  An on-air television reporter, US Senate communications director, managing partner of a public affairs and political advertising agency, Kris eventually moved to St. Augustine, FL and formed her own company to purchase and run Newstalk WFOY and Sports Radio WAOC.

A Memorial Service will be held on Wednesday, September 1 at 10:30 a.m. at the Lutheran Church of the Atonement, 909 E. Main St., Barrington, IL. Private Burial to follow at the Evergreen Cemetery, Barrington. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Food Pantry of The Family Worship Center, St. Augustine, www.thefwc.tv .