Elbert John GREEN

GREEN, KANITZ, RIEKEN, VRIEZE, LAMAAK, KLUVER, DAVIS, HALLIGAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/30/2009 at 13:32:07

Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa
October 17, 1995

Services for Elbert J. Green, 89, of Woden, who died Monday (Oct. 16, 1995) at Hancock County Memorial Hospital in Britt, will be held 10 a.m. Wednesday at the First Presbyterian Church in Woden, with the Rev. James Chambers officiating. Burial will be in the Bingham Township Cemetery in Woden. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Cataldo Funeral Chapel, Woden.

Elbert John Green, the son of Daniel Green and Anna (nee) Kanitz Green, was born July 14, 1906, at Corwith. He attended the rural schools near Corwith and also Corwith Community Schools. Elbert farmed with his family in the Corwith, Kanawha and Woden areas for several years. On March 27, 1935, he married Anna I. Rieken at the First Presbyterian Church in Woden. They farmed southeast of Woden until they retired in April of 1979 and moved into town. Due to ill health, they moved to the Westview Care Center in Britt in November of 1993. He enjoyed his great-grandchildren, family, friends, church work and farming. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church where he had served on the board. He was also a board member for Bingham Township Schools.

He is survived by his wife, Anna Green of Britt; his daughter, Virginia Vrieze and her husband, Gerald, of Britt; three grandchildren, LeAnn Lamaak and her husband, Keith; Marcia Kluver and her husband, Bruce, and LeRoy Vrieze and his wife, Diane, all of Britt; five great-grandchildren, Brett Kluver, Amber Kluver, Jennifer Vrieze, Jolene Vrieze and Jill Vrieze; two sisters, Bertha Davis of Longmont, Colo., and Beulah Green of Britt; a brother, William G. Green and his wife, Laura, of Wesley; and a sister-in-law, Helen Green of Decatur, Ill. He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Ethel Halligan; and three brothers, Edward Green, Carl Green and Harold Green.