Phyllis Pearce
Full name: Phyllis Pearce (née
Grimes)
Parents: Joshua and Violet Grimes
Born: 7 February 1921, Weatherfield, Lancashire
Married: Harold Pearce (15 September 1946)
Children: Margaret (died 1977)
Played by: Jill Summers
Appeared: 20 September 1982 - 1 May 1996
We first saw widow Phyllis doing what comes naturally to her -
looking for a man. Though this time is was really to find her
grandson Craig Whitely, who had
just moved into No9 with his paternal grandfather, Chalkie
Whitely. Phyllis' daughter (Craig's mother) Margaret had died
of cancer, and Craig was the only family she had left. Within
a few months Craig joined his merchant seaman father, Bob, in
Australia and Phyllis turned her attentions to Chalkie. Chalkie
couldn't cope with Phyllis' interfering and by August 1983 he
too sold up and joined Craig and Bob.
She was soon working with Gail Tilsley
in Jim's Cafe, but she was eventually retired when Alma
Sedgewick took a more active role in the business, though
she still helps out in the cafe from time to time.
Phyllis is basically a lonely lady, and is always on the lookout
for new companions - preferably male. For many years she has doggedly
persued Percy Sugden, although
his bowls rival Sam Tindall posed
a useful attraction to try and make Percy jealous, but to little
avail. In 1993, she won a poetry competition for a poem about
her love for Percy, and in January 1996 her hopes rocketed as
Maud Grimes read Phyllis's tea
leaves and told her the man of her dreams was coming into her
life. Sadly, Maud had mixed up the cups!
There is one other man in Phyllis' life - Des
Barnes. Des took pity on Phyllis when she lost her cafe job
and let her become housekeeper at Nº6. Although Phyllis has
seen plenty of Des' philanderings, she has always been discrete,
though at times she has had to turn a blind eye or give Des a
good talking to.
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