Green, Mary "Lucy"

GREEN, SMITH, KILMER, NEWMARCH, REGIONE

Posted By: Ruth Maring - VOLUNTEER
Date: 3/16/2010 at 17:23:14

The Clinton Herald
March 9, 2010
Mary “Lucy” Green
By Angie Bicker
Herald Staff Writer

Camanche — Mary “Lucy” Green, 95, of Camanche, died Friday February 19, 2010, at Mercy Medical Center. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 13, 2010, at the Camanche Chapel Snell-Zornig Funeral Home and Crematory. Visitation with family will be from 1 p.m. until the service hour Saturday at the funeral home.

Mary Lucile Smith was born March 8, 1914, in Bison, South Dakota, the daughter of Downing Ford and Florence Mae (Kilmer) Smith. She married Don Green on October 11, 1941, in Kahoka, Missouri; he died on February 25, 2001.

She was a 1930 (age 16) graduate of Wapello High School and graduated from Iowa Wesleyan College at the age of 19. She received her master’s degree in science/mathematics from the University of Iowa.

She taught math at Clinton Community College for 12 years. She had previously taught in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Eldon, Winfield and Stanhope, Iowa. She and Don both taught in Stanhope for 12 years and every year she and her husband, Don, took the senior high school class on a summer class trip. They visited Mammoth Caves, Yellowstone Park and Colorado among other places. Those students never forgot Lucile and Don and paid them frequent visits in Camanche throughout the years.

Lucy enjoyed travel and had visited all 50 states, all of Canada, Europe, Russia, Mexico and China. She was a member of Mensa, Delta Kappa Gamma, Red Hat Society and Clinton’s Women's Club.

She is survived by her daughter, Mary Newmarch of Camanche; one grandson, Donald Newmarch of West Bend, WI; and one sister, Jeanette Regione of Arlington Heights, IL.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and 2 brothers.

Memorials can be made to American Cancer Society. Online condolences my be left by visiting www.snellzornig.com.

Death date: Feb. 19, 2010