Phyllis Grabow was born in Chicago on December 18, 1905 and lived there till the time of her entrance, which was deferred because of having to care for her mother. She was professed on February 10, 1948 and made perpetual vows on the same date in 1953.

In pre-convent days through Josephine Wojtanek, our future Sister M. James she joined the Marian Pages, a group of young women with high spiritual ideals, associated with our Mundelein convent. They kept a monthly day of recollection at the convent, attended Mass and received Holy Communion daily before going to work, and engaged in an apostolate of charitable works - all of which served as a kind of pre-novitiate to the religious life.

Sister was a quiet, sincere, loving person, simple in her manners and tastes, totally given to God. Despite a frail constitution, she made generous, even heroic efforts to live a full community life along with her companions, most of whom were many years her junior in age. She also had the duty of cleaning the chapel. During her stay in Kansas City she developed a serious heart condition and had to return to Clyde, where she lived in the infirmary but was able to do light work. She died on July 7, 1966, at the age of sixty-one.