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Remembering former ONE-PS Chair Phil Strout
Philip Strout, Aug. 31, 1949 - May 1, 2021
Phil was born in Brownsville, Texas on Aug. 31, 1949. Shortly thereafter, his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he was raised in the town of Massapequa.
He graduated from Boston University in 1970 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Political Science. He moved to Washington, D.C. where he worked for Travelers Aid. Phil and Sam Taylor, his husband of 47 years, met in the Georgetown Bar & Grill in 1974 and have been together ever since.
For most of his life, Phil worked as a fundraiser for nonprofit organizations. In 1979, he and Sam moved to Los Angeles where Phil worked at the John Tracy Center, which provides parent-centered services to young children with hearing loss. He was the Center’s chief fundraiser for 14 years.
In 1982, Phil and Sam bought their first house together, in South Pasadena. In 1994, they bought a home in Altadena – during this time, Phil was working as a fundraiser for a drug and alcohol abuse clinic in San Pedro. After retirement, Phil and Sam moved to Palm Springs in 2010, where they purchased a home in the Los Compadres Neighborhood.
“He was at home here,” said Sam. “He loved Palm Springs, he loved the people he worked with.”
Phil became active in the Los Compadres Neighborhood Organization, was one of the neighborhood’s representatives to ONE-PS, then served as Chair of ONE-PS from 2017 – 2018.
When the couple decided to downsize a few years ago, “I could only look in the neighborhood so he could stay president of the neighborhood organization,” Sam said, laughing.
Phil’s mother preceded him in death on January 13, 2020 at the age of 98.