"Victor E. Phillips, 47, was found dead in his apartment at 108 N. Cayuga St. Wednesday Oct. 3, 1945.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Bessie W. Phillips, he is survived by a son, Victor E. Phillips Jr., three brothers, Jesse and Rufus Phillips of Ithaca and Alexander Phillips of Newark, NJ...."

"Deaths, Funerals: Victor E. Phillips," Ithaca Journal, October 4, 1945, 7.