Hometown Brandon - Summer 2015
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teaching career to raise their family. Philip was<br />
the football and basketball coach at Pearl for<br />
five-and-a-half years.<br />
In 1967, he ran for circuit clerk and won.<br />
For the next 28 years the voters kept him in office<br />
until his retiring in 1995. Philip credits Pasty for<br />
being a great campaign manager and a good<br />
politician’s wife. Patsy credits the people of<br />
Rankin County for being so good to them.<br />
Patsy is quick to acknowledge the best<br />
Christmas of their married years. Philip had<br />
been diagnosed with lung cancer in 1986 and<br />
underwent chemo and radiation treatments.<br />
His surgeon brought them the wonderful news<br />
after surgery that December. He was able to<br />
remove all the cancer.<br />
In 1988, Patsy was diagnosed with breast<br />
cancer, but the treatment was another success<br />
story for her and their family. Today they enjoy<br />
family gatherings and being a part of their three<br />
grandchildren’s lives – Eliza, Sally, and Philip.<br />
The Warrens are also dedicated supporters of<br />
the <strong>Brandon</strong> B Club and rarely miss the high<br />
school games.<br />
Their two daughters, Tress Gardner, a<br />
librarian, and Kelli Adcock, principal at Rouse<br />
elementary, live with their families<br />
in homes across the street<br />
from their parents.<br />
The Warrens believe active church life and a<br />
lot of family time have been keys to their successful<br />
marriage of 57 years. Patsy still wonders how the<br />
family managed to make Sunday school seven<br />
years in a row and earn pins for their daughters.<br />
Philip explained further, “We’ve not<br />
crowded each other. Patsy does things with<br />
her friends – like bridge, church activities and<br />
shopping while I enjoy hunting, fishing and<br />
golfing with the guys.”<br />
When Philip was in ICU during his cancer<br />
ordeal, a lady stopped Patsy in the grocery and<br />
said, “Your husband has to get well; there are so<br />
many praying for him.” Couples who love each<br />
other, their family, church and community reap<br />
a harvest of compassionate and caring friends.<br />
Patsy and Philip Warren are living testimonials<br />
to that fact.<br />
“I thought he<br />
was about the<br />
cutest thing<br />
I had ever seen.”<br />
<strong>Hometown</strong> <strong>Brandon</strong> • 7
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