Shirley Phillips, Half Of Husband-And-Wife Duo Who Launched Phillips Seafood, Dead At 95

The late Brice Phillips with wife Shirley, who passed away Monday. Credit: Phillips Seafood/Facebook

Shirley Flowers Phillips, who launched Phillips Seafood with late husband Brice, died Monday, the company confirms.

She passed away at her Ocean City home, Delmarva Now reports. She was 95.

What began as a way to sell surplus crabs from their Hoopers Island processing plant grew over the past 67 years from a small Ocean City market and restaurant to a number of locations on the East Coast and a line of frozen products. Many of the recipes, the company boasts on their websites, were from Shirley Phillips' kitchen.

Phillips is now based in Baltimore, but their Ocean City crab house remains.

Brice Phillips died in 2011 at age 90. He was beloved by friends including the late William Donald Schaefer, who left him $2,500 and a personal remembrance in his will, Delmarva Now notes.