Margie Espie Kemp Green

FROM THE CARTHAGE COURIER CARTHAGE, TN THURSDAY 18 APR 1996

Transcribed by Fred and Elaine Brown Ryan

Green, Margie Espie Kemp 1917 – 1996

Mrs. Margie Kemp Green of Carthage died at 4:30 a.m. Friday morning, April 12, 1996, at the Mt. Juliet Health Care Center at the age of 78 following a lengthy illness. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon, April 13, at 3:00 p.m. from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Eld. Lonnie Mozingo, Jr. officiated at the services and Burial followed in the Defeated Creek Memorial Gardens.

The daughter of the late Willie and Ina Lemons Kemp, Mrs. Green was born in Defeated Creek. She was preceded in death on March 5, 1991, by her husband, Raymond Green. For many years, ending in the late 1970's, she and her husband Owned & Operated the Walton Hotel and Dining Room before their retirement. Mrs. Green was a member of the Bethel Primitive Baptist Church in Nashville. Mrs. Green was preceded in death on February 28, 1981, by a daughter, Carolyn Green Anderson.

Surviving are two daughters, Barbara Green Sircy of Carthage and Patricia Norris of Carthage; one Son, LaDon Green of Mt. Juliet; three sisters: Lucy Patterson of Carthage, Grady Brown and Edgie Lankford, both of Nashville; one brother, Ester Kemp of Defeated Creek; ten grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren; two great-greatgrandchildren.

Sanderson Funeral Home of Carthage, Directors.

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