James Edward Green

FROM THE CARTHAGE COURIER CARTHAGE, TN THURSDAY 20 JUL 1995

Transcribed by Fred and Elaine Brown Ryan

Green, James Edward 1933-1995

Funeral services for Mr. James E. Green of South Carthage were conducted Tuesday afternoon, July 18, 1995, by Elder Ronnie Harrison from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed the 3:00 p.m. services in the Defeated Creek Memorial Gardens. Masonic Chapel services were conducted Monday evening at 8:00 p.m. by Carthage Benevolent Lodge #14 F & A M, of which Mr. Green was a member.

Mr. Green died at 3:30 a.m. Monday morning, July 17, at the Centennial Medical Center in Nashville at the age of 62 of cancer. Born in the Difficult Community, he was the Son of Mrs. Ocie Lee Kemp Green and the late Willie Elbert Green. On September 5, 1990, he was married to the Former Jewell Kemp Brooks, who survives. He attended Smith County High School and was a longtime member of the Defeated Creek Missionary Baptist Church at Difficult With a career As an over the road trucker that spanned thirty years, Mr. Green Retired from Consolidated Freight Ways in 1993 after driving for them for eleven years.

Surviving in addition to his wife and mother are three children: Kenneth Green of Mt. Juliet, Victor Green of Donelson and James E. Green II of Lebanon; five step-children: Steve and Mark Brooks of Carthage, Richard and Randall Brooks and Lisa Miller, all of South Carthage; two grandchildren; five step-grandchildren. Sanderson Funeral Home of Carthage, Directors.

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