Robert Isadore (�Tigue�) Phillips, 97, resident of Wesley Commons and formerly of Columbia, died Monday, May 18, 2009. He was born in Springfield, SC, at the edge of the Low Country. He attended schools in Springfield and in 1929 entered the University of South Carolina. Because of the Depression and World War II, he did not return to USC until after the war, graduating in Retailing in 1949. He also attended Bowen�s Business College. During the 1930�s, he was Office Manager/Sales Manager for E. L. Bruce Company. He served in the US Navy at the Naval Air Station and Separation Center in Jacksonville, FL. From 1946 until 1952, he was President of Southern Home Specialty Company in Columbia. From 1952 until 1978, he was a field auditor for the SC Tax Commission and, after that, a partner in Palmetto Sales and Use Tax Consultants. A man of many interests, Mr. Phillips was a Life Member of the Caroliniana Society, the Sons of the Revolution, and the American Legion. He was a longstanding member and deacon at the First Baptist Church of Columbia. He worked in Sunday School, bus ministries, and Boy Scouts at this church. He also attended First Baptist Church of Black Mountain, NC and Main Street United Methodist Church of Greenwood. He loved to play with his grandchildren, garden, fish, and hunt. When the Depression made college too expensive and jobs scarce, he, his brother Glenn, and several friends camped out and lived on catfish on Munndungo Island in the Edisto River Swamp. In July 2001, he moved from his longtime home in Columbia to the Wesley Commons community. Mr. Phillips married Swannanoa Kenney of Rembert, SC. Mrs. Phillips died in 1996. He is survived by their son, Dr. Robert K. Phillips and his wife, Sharon, of Donalds, SC and three grandchildren: Anna Lena Phillips of Durham, NC, Marsha Kathleen Price of Swannanoa, NC, and Robert Merwan MacKenney Phillips of Swannanoa, NC. He was preceded in death by his sisters, Mary P. Williamson and Irma Dean Rutland, and his brothers, Arthur Glenn Phillips and Norwood H. Phillips.