Janice Phillips Larrick and Nick Neupauer, president of Butler County Community College, celebrate Phillips Larrick’s $1 million gift to BC3. The gift was made in memory of her late husband and is being used to help fund construction of the Victor K. Phillips Nursing and Allied Health Building. Butler Eagle file photo

Janice Phillips Larrick, whose name is synonymous with nursing and symphony orchestra music in Butler County, was always a positive person who loved her large family and the community.

Janice, of Butler, died Sunday at age 96.

“My mother was always trying to find the good in everything,” said Gordon Phillips of Mechanicsburg, the youngest of the nine children she had with her first husband, the late Victor K. Phillips.

If he had to chose one word to describe her, it would be “love,” her son said.

“Her love for Jesus Christ was No. 1. It was the love for all her children. It was the unconditional love for all of her grandchildren, and it was the love for her community,” Phillips said.

It was her love of the community that led her to provide Butler County Community College with seed money for the nursing program to help the future generation of nurses, he said.

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