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More than gifts: A quilter's legacy of comfort in the NICU

by DAVID BERNAUER
Staff Writer | October 7, 2026 1:05 AM

A gift in a time of need can mean the world to someone.

Pris (Mama Pris) Phillips and her group, Wee Ones Quilts, gave these gifts out in bunches. Before her passing Sept. 30 from metastatic breast cancer, Phillips and Wee Ones Quilts donated 1,649 quilts to Kootenai Health’s NICU, with 269 of those made by Phillips, according to her daughter, Lindsey Marwil.

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