Louise Green

Louise Green, age 91, passed away December 8, 2017 in Grand Junction, Colorado of a heart attack.  Her husband, Robert Green, preceded her in death five years earlier in El Dorado, Kansas and she lived with her son, Roger Green, and daughter-in-law, Cindy, in Grand Junction, Colorado since the death of her husband.  Bob and Louise were married over sixty years and are survived by Roger and his wife, Cindy; granddaughter, Jenny Phillips of Austin, Texas; grandson, Christian Green of Phoenix, Arizona; and grandson, Nathaniel Green of Tokyo, Japan.  Her brother, Bob and sister, Georgia, preceded her in death.  Her sisters, Vivian (Bib) and Betty still live in Seneca, South Carolina.  Her father and mother passed away many years ago and are also buried in South Carolina.  Mom wished to be cremated and the folks a Brown’s Crematory have assisted in this difficult time.  She will be buried next to Bob, my father, in the Towanda, Kansas Cemetery in the Spring.

Louise, my mother, was a truly gracious and wonderful woman from the enormous city of Walhalla, South Carolina.  She grew up poor in a family of five children.  There was no running water and her father, my grandfather, farmed with a horse and plow.  She met my father, Robert Green, in Atlanta, Georgia upon his returning from England after serving as a Waist Machine Gunner on a B-24, Bombing the smithereens out of Germans in World War II.  He swept her off her feet, literally, and brought her West to Kansas, in a jeep brought back from Europe.  Mom’s home was always Southern, but she loved Dad, also born poor, close to El Dorado, Kansas, and managed to live in the flatlands, even though she would have driven home in a second if it had not been for Robert.  After Dad died five years ago, she moved in with Cindy, my wife, and I, in Grand Junction, Colorado, and fell in love again with the mountains she missed in South Carolina.  Surprisingly, she also grew fond of our canyons, at the edge of the Colorado Plateau.  All grandmothers love their grandchildren, and she truly loved each of them.  They will miss her as much as Cindy, myself and all of our family.  No matter what there is after death, she will bring much love and kindness to everyone.