1909
Marjory
2008
Marjory May Green (Donnell)
November 19, 1909 — June 20, 2008
Marjory May Green, 98, of Sioux City, died Friday, June 20, 2008, at a Sioux City nursing home.
Services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Glendale Community Baptist Church, with Pastor Roy Struble officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Morningside Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Homes.
Marjory was born on Nov. 19, 1909, in Randolph, Neb., the daughter of Irena May (Wright) and Willis Burdette Donnell. She was raised in rural Sioux City. She graduated from Lawton High School and attended Morningside Teachers College.
On June 16, 1928, she married Dean Orville Green in Bloomfield, Neb. They lived in Iowa until 1952, when they moved to California. Dean died in California in 1982. Marjory moved back to Sioux City in 1990.
She was a member of Glendale Community Baptist Church and the ladies group at the church. Marjory was a seamstress, and enjoyed travel and playing cards with the family. She also enjoyed crocheting.
Survivors include two daughters, Joy Jeannine Slauter of Phoenix, Ariz., and Verla Gay Gray of Hinton, Iowa; 13 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her son, Delmont; two grandchildren, Garrett Gray and Frank House; five brothers; and a sister.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dirk House and Larry Cale. Pallbearers will be Michael Betts, Harvard Bomgaars, Mark House, Jeffery Fulton, Martin Gray and Robert Gray.
A memorial has been established in her name for Hospice of Siouxland and the Glendale Baptist Church.
Services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Glendale Community Baptist Church, with Pastor Roy Struble officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Morningside Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Homes.
Marjory was born on Nov. 19, 1909, in Randolph, Neb., the daughter of Irena May (Wright) and Willis Burdette Donnell. She was raised in rural Sioux City. She graduated from Lawton High School and attended Morningside Teachers College.
On June 16, 1928, she married Dean Orville Green in Bloomfield, Neb. They lived in Iowa until 1952, when they moved to California. Dean died in California in 1982. Marjory moved back to Sioux City in 1990.
She was a member of Glendale Community Baptist Church and the ladies group at the church. Marjory was a seamstress, and enjoyed travel and playing cards with the family. She also enjoyed crocheting.
Survivors include two daughters, Joy Jeannine Slauter of Phoenix, Ariz., and Verla Gay Gray of Hinton, Iowa; 13 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her son, Delmont; two grandchildren, Garrett Gray and Frank House; five brothers; and a sister.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dirk House and Larry Cale. Pallbearers will be Michael Betts, Harvard Bomgaars, Mark House, Jeffery Fulton, Martin Gray and Robert Gray.
A memorial has been established in her name for Hospice of Siouxland and the Glendale Baptist Church.
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