Mae Bell Arrington Phillips was born 2 April 1900, in Bueinck County, Alabama, to Jim Phillips and Minnie Arrington. She received her undergraduate degree at Prairie View State Normal & Industrial College (now Prairie View A & M University) in 1926. That same year she became an Associate Professor of Household Arts at the school. Arrington Phillips was a member of the Alpha Omicron Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Following her time at Prairie View, Arrington Phillips began teaching at West Virginia State College, where she taught Home Economics and eventually rose to Director of the Home Economics Department.
She married Dr. Joseph Robinson Jones on 9 September 1935, but her husband died shortly after their union in 1939. Mae Bell Arrington Phillips died on 1 April 1988.
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Photo Credit: Prairie View A&M University (1926). The Prairie, 1926 (p. 33). Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1033&context=yearbooks
