William Gerald GREEN

KANITZ, GREEN, DUDGEON, SMIDT, LUNDGREN, SMITH, DAVIS, HALLIGAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/23/2010 at 10:54:25

April 9, 1917 -- January 18, 2003

ALGONA UPPER DES MOINES - ALGONA, IA
January 23, 2003

FUNERAL SERVICE FOR WILLIAM G. GREEN, 85, WAS HELD AT 1030 AM TODAY(THURSDAY JAN 23) IN THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AT BRITT WITH REV. ROBERT DODGE OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN EVERGREEN CEMETERY AT BRITT, THE CATALDO FUNERAL HOME OF BRITT IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS. CASKET BEARERS WERE HIS SIX GRANDCHILDREN, BRIAN AND CHAD GREEN, MICHELLE AND JENNIFER DUDGEON AND ADAM AND ALLISON SMIDT. HONORARY BEARERS WERE ED OTIS AND ELMER REICHERTS.

WILLIAM GERALD GREEN, SON OF DANIEL AND ANNA KANITZ GREEN WAS BORN APRIL 9, 1917 ON THE FAMILY FARM NEAR CORWITH. HE ATTENDED THE RURAL SCHOOLS OF HANCOCK COUNTY. WILLIAM MARRIED LAURA M. LUNDGREN ON SEPT 18, 1943 IN THE LUTHERAN PARSONAGE AT GARNER. THEY LIVED NEAR WESLEY WHERE THEY FARMED 55 YEARS AND RAISED CHICKENS, GOATS, GEESE AND QUARTER HORSES. WILLIAM ENJOYED SPENDING TIME WITH HIS GRANDCHILDREN, BUILDING THINGS, GARDENING AND READING. LOUIS LAMOUR BOOKS. HE ALSO LIKE TO TRAVEL TO ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA WITH LAURA EACH YEAR TO VISIT FAMILY. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AT BRITT, ACTIVE IN THE HANCOCK COUNTY FARM BUREAU AND WAS A FORMER 4-H LEADER IN ORTHEL TOWNSHIP.

SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE, LAURA AND FOUR CHILDREN, GERALD AND BEA GREEN, PHOENIX, AZ. PATSY AND TOM DUDGEON, RIVERSIDE CA. NANCY AND DON SMITH KASSON, MN, KIM AND STEVE SMIDT, HASTINGS MN. THERE ARE SIX GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER. ONE SISTER, BEULAH GREEN OF BRITT, ALSO SURVIVES. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS, TWO SISTERS, BERTHA DAVIS AND ETHEL HALLIGAN, AND FOUR BROTHERS, EDWARD, CARL, ALBERT AND HAROLD GREEN.