SARGENT PHYLLIS POLLOCK Of Longwood at Oakmont died August 17, 2015, at UPMC-St.Margaret. Born July 13, 1921, in California, PA, daughter of the late Strickler and Nellie Williams Pollock. Phyllis was raised in Vestaburg and California, attending school there and graduating from California State Teachers College (now California Univ. of Pennsylvania). On June 6, 1943, she married her high school sweetheart, Lowrie B. Sargent, Jr. at the Presbyterian Church in California, PA. Together they welcomed four children, raising them in New Kensington and Indiana Township, outside of Pittsburgh. Phyllis became an elementary school teacher, earning a Master's Degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and worked as a 2nd grade teacher and reading specialist in Fairview and Kerr Schools within the Fox Chapel School District. She and Lowrie were charter members of the Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church where she was an active volunteer during the children's youth. After retirement, Phyllis began to volunteer at St. Margaret's Memorial Hospital (now UPMC-St. Margaret's) and ultimately became President of the Volunteer Board and President of the Women's Auxiliary. She contributed hundreds of hours of volunteer service. She was preceded in death by her husband; two sisters, Nellie Pollock Kelly and Mildred Pollock Titus; two brothers, Winton and Willerton Pollock; and great-grandson, Aidan Russell. She is survived by her daughters, Dianne S-P. Cermak (Gregory) of Sudbury, Massachusetts, Cathy Sargent Mester (Richard) of Erie, and Elizabeth Sargent Ross (Mark) of Bethel Park; and by her son, Lowrie B. Sargent III (Chris) of Camden, Maine. She is further survived by grandchildren, John Chamberlain, Laura Brown , Cari Russell (John), Clark Mester, Benjamin Ross and Julia Ross; great- grandchildren, Austin Koch (Peter), Graham Brown, Eion Russell and Emma Russell; and by great-great-grandsons, Tyler Suarez and Jameson Koch. Friends and relatives will be received on Friday, August 21, 2015, from 10:30 a.m. until time of 11:30 a.m. Funeral Service at BURKET - TRUBY FUNERAL HOME CREMATION & ALTERNATIVE SERVICES, INC., 421 Allegheny Ave., Oakmont, (412) 828-3535. Interment will follow in Allegheny Cemetery next to her husband. Send condolences post-gazette.com/gb