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 Phyllis
Vanhoose became an EMT in 1979 and worked for a year for the Ellis
County Ambulance Service after being certified.
She became the Director of the Plainville
Ambulance Service on June 11, 1982 and served in that position until
her death on April 14, 1994.
Phyllis did the standard EMS things - she
was a Training Officer, co-ordinated the Rooks County Emergency
Preparedness Program, co-ordinated the Mass Disaster Training Drills
for Rooks County, taught many classes in CPR, was a Medic First Aid
instructor.
The above are all cold facts but they
don’t capture the essence that was Phyllis.
She set extremely high standards for herself and her service,
she was a bold, charismatic lady and had a wacky, delightful sense of
humor. She put the
service before her family with the full support of her husband and
children.
Even
though she was diagnosed with terminal cancer in December of 1993, she
continued to tutor, scold and encourage her employees.
Her favorite phrase, “There is a right way, a wrong way and
Phyllis’s way”, continues to be a remembered in Plainville.
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