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Phyllis Dean Altrogge

Date of Death: September 26, 2022

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St. Paul's Parish
2430 K Street
Washington DC, Washington DC 20037
202-337-2020 |
Monday 10/17, 11:00 am

Phyllis Dean Altrogge was born on June 15, 1935 on a farm near Mexico, Missouri to Emmett Carl Altrogge and Florence Azile Dean Altrogge. She graduated from Mexico High School, Mexico, Missouri in 1953. Phyllis received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in 1957.
From 1957 until 1969, Phyllis was employed by the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland as an intelligence research analyst specializing in the Chinese language. She earned a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1975. From 1975 until 1995, she was employed as a staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. She retired from the Federal Trade Commission in 1995.
In retirement, she volunteered for twenty years at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and also for the homeless program at St. Paul’s Church on K Street in Washington, D.C.
In March 2011, she married Matthew Francis Murphy, Jr. They especially enjoyed traveling together. Matt passed away in January 2017.
In addition to volunteering and traveling, she spent her retirement years reading, caring for her rescue greyhounds and hiking, including solo hikes across England and around the Tour du Mont Blanc in France. In 2019 she moved from McLean, Virginia to a retirement community in Lake Frederick, Virginia.
She was a long-time parishioner at St. Paul’s Church on K Street in Washington, D.C.
Phyllis is also predeceased by her parents and sister, Iris Jean Altrogge Soule’. She is survived by her brother-in-law, Covert Aiken Soule’, Jr. of O’Fallon, Illinois; a nephew, Covert Aiken Soule’, III (Christina Crane Soule’) of O’Fallon, Illinois; and two nieces, Cathryn Ann (Soule’) Combs (Richard Combs) of Wentzville, Missouri; and Carolyn Dean (Soule’) Monson (Timothy Monson) of Arlington Heights, Illinois. In addition, she is survived by seven grand nieces and nephews including Covert Aiken Soule’, IV; Mary Kate Soule’; Caitlin Alyssa (Combs) Hasse (Luke Hasse); Kyle Andrew Combs; Callie Alexandra Combs; Grant Alan Monson; and Kevin Dean Monson; as well as a great grand niece and nephew.
Funeral arrangements courtesy of Omps Funeral Home. A requiem mass will be held on October 17, 2022 at 11:00 am at St. Paul’s Church on K Street in Washington D.C. Interment will also be at St. Paul’s Church Columbarium.

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St. Paul's Parish
2430 K Street
Washington DC, Washington DC 20037
202-337-2020 | Map
Monday 10/17, 11:00 am

Phyllis Dean Altrogge was born on June 15, 1935 on a farm near Mexico, Missouri to Emmett Carl Altrogge and Florence Azile Dean Altrogge. She graduated from Mexico High School, Mexico, Missouri in 1953. Phyllis received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in 1957. From 1957 until 1969, Phyllis wasContinue Reading

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Pamela Megna left a message on October 15, 2022:
So sorry to hear of phyllis' passing. She was a generous and loving person. We met at the FTC. She generously hosted not one but 2 baby showers for me (my eldest son and then 4 years later for my twins) I travelled to England with her, my daughter (who was 11 at the time) and friends. We enjoyed many get togethers in our red hat society group. Sorry we had not had an opportunity to get together in the last few years.
Margaret Patterson left a message on October 15, 2022:
Phyllis was a colleague and an inspiration, and I learned a lot from her. She was a woman of strong opinions, and even when I did not agree with her, I respected how well-argued and sincerely held her opinions were. She was a wonderful dinner conversationalist, and since meeting here in 1990 I enjoyed many meals and happy hours with her. She was the first person to visit me in the hospital when my daughter was born, and ten years after that my daughter and I joined her in London for a vacation - it was wonderful for my daughter to see a familiar face in another country and to learn, by Phyllis’s example, that women could go off on traveling adventures by themselves. Although she lived to a very rip old age, and lived her life well, I always thought we’d have more time with Phyllis, given that her mother lived well past 100. I view this as Phyllis’s final lesson to me - do not take time for granted. May she Rest In Peace. Her memory surely will be a blessing to me and to many.
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