CAMBRIDGE - Agnes Dolores Bradford Phillips Henry, age 80, of Newport News, Va., and Cambridge, died on Friday, Sept. 16, 2011, in Newport News. Dolores passed quietly to live eternally in heaven with her Lord and reunite with countless loved ones. Born Agnes Dolores Bradford, she entered this world on Sept. 14, 1931, in Cambridge, as the second child of Bertsil Brinsfield and Ruth Pauline Adkins Bradford. Dolores was a graduating member of the Cambridge High School, Class of 1949. In 1951, she married "Bunny" Phillips and, as the wife of a sailor in the United States Navy, spent many years living in and around Newport News. Dolores had a great fondness for history and while in Virginia she proudly worked for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, and basked in three centuries worth of knowledge and information. Eventually, Dolores returned home to Cambridge. She married Herman Atwood Henry in 1973, where she played many years of tennis and loved his children and friends. Dolores had a lifelong desire to be a nurse and she honored her calling for helping the ill by working at Dorchester General Hospital in the Emergency Department as well as working with the volunteer EMS. In time she went on to work at the American Red Cross in Easton and in the Garden center at Wal-mart in Cambridge. From the union of a former marriage to the late Luther Preston Phillips are three children, Robert Preston Phillips (Bonnie), Patricia Eileen Dodson (George), and Bradford Clay Phillips (Janet). From those three, she was subsequently blessed with five grandchildren, Jeannette Marie Dodson-O'Connell, JD (Kevin), Robert Preston Phillips, Jr. (Candy), Joy Elizabeth Dodson, George Donald Dodson, II (Kristina), and Bradford Clay Phillips, II; and was the proud great-grandmother to eight little darlings. In addition to all of her children and grandchildren, she is survived by an older sister Bertie Jean Pinson; many loving nephews, nieces, great-nieces, great-nephews and more cousins than she could count! Preceding her in death, besides her parents, was her brother-in-law, Jerry Pinson; as well as all of her aunts and uncles. Ms. Henry was cremated. A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 24, at Grace United Methodist Church, 501 Race St., Cambridge, where the family will receive friends an hour prior to the service. Officiating at the service will be Pastor Jay Hurley. Inurnment will follow at East New Market Cemetery. Pallbearers will be her grandchildren. The family would like to extend a special thank you to the doctors and nurses at Mary Immaculate Hospital who helped with the care of Dolores as well as all the cards and phone calls from her friends, family and classmates during the short illness. In lieu of flowers, memorials offerings may be made to Grace United Methodist Church, 501 Race St., Cambridge, MD 21613. Arrangements are entrusted to Curran-Bromwell Funeral Home, P.A., Cambridge, Md. To view online condolences, please visit
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