Essex — Phyllis Ann Downs, 90, of Cable Gardens, Ipswich and formerly of Walnut Park, Essex, died November 29, 2012 in the Seacoast Rehabilitation Center, Gloucester following her brief illness. Born in Winchester July 26, 1922 daughter of the late Edward F. and Phyllis (Cook) Downs, she was raised in Reading, a 1939 graduate of Reading public schools and of the Bryant Stratton School of Business. For twenty-five or more years she was employed as a secretary at the former Pilgrim Trust Bank in Boston. She was later employed as the office manager at her brother Howard Downs’ Northeast Ford Engines in Ipswich from which she retired in 1998.
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