Phyllis Bolton Duer, a homemaker who had been a British army nurse during World War II, died Saturday at Church Hospital after a long illness. She was 72.

A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, St. Thomas Lane, in Owings Mills.

Also surviving are a son, A. Adgate Duer Jr. of Seattle; two daughters, Margaret K. Singh of Columbia and Bolton Duer Price of Ferrisburg, Vt.; a brother, Allan C. W. Bolton of Melbourne, Australia; and four grandchildren.