United States Navy World War II Veteran
Birdie Nell Green of Spur, a Dickens County resident since 1940, was buried in Spur Cemetery following 4 p.m. memorial rites in the First United Methodist Church of Spur. The Rev. Archie Echols, pastor, and the Rev. Norris Taylor, pastor of First Baptist Church in Spur, officiated.
Mrs. Green was the mother of Sharon Brown of White River Lake.
The 57-year-old Spur woman died at 11 a.m. Sunday in St. Mary´s Hospital, Lubbock.
A Henrietta native, Mrs. Green had lived in Spur since 1952. She moved to Dickens County from Roaring Springs in 1940 and married John L. Green on March 19, 1941 in Dickens.
Survivors include her husband; one daughter, Sharon Brown of White River Lake; three brothers; two sisters and a granddaughter.
©Crosbyton Review, January 12, 1978
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
Services for John L. Green, 77, Jayton, formerly of Spur, were at 2 p.m. December 11, 1990 in the First United Methodist Church.
Dr. Ned Hicks, pastor of the First Christian Church, Spur, officiated, assisted by Dr. Genoa Goad, pastor of the First Baptist Church; Rev. Bob Wright of the Calvary Temple Assembly of God Church, Dickens and Rev. John Dorn, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, Spur.
Burial was in Spur Memorial Cemetery under direction of Campbell Funreal home.
Green died suddenly at his home in Jayton about 6:57 p.m. December 9, 1990. He was born October 24, 1913 in Dickens. He had lived in Spur and Jayton most of his life.
He was a farm and ranch real estate broker for 45 years. He helped organize the Spur Little League Baseball Assn.; was manager of the Spur Chamber of Commerce in 1955; was a former director of the Texas Bank in Lubbock; was president of the Spur Golf Club for 15 years; was wagon boss of the Spur Chuck Wagon Gang for 12 years and was a past member of the Spur Rotary Club and Spur Lions Club.
He married Birdie Nell Nichols on April 3, 1941 in Dickens. She died in January of 1978. He later married Dorothy Holitzke Judy in May of 1978 at White River Lake. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and a member of the Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Green, Jayton; three step-sons, Virgil Judy, San Antonio; Kenneth Judy, Crawford and Harold Judy, Houston; one daughter, Sharon Brown, White River Lake; a brother, Robert C. (Spec) Green, Spur; six grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
©The Texas Spur, December, 1990
From the scrapbook of Thelma Kimmel Scott
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