Ethel Stokes Green

SERVICES: SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 18, 2017
11:00 A.M.
MCCLAIN-HAYS CHAPEL

VISITATION: FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
5:00-8:00 P.M.

INTERMENT:
GOODIN CEMETERY
WINSTON COUNTY

OFFICIATING:
REV. BRIAN MCDONALD
RE. MARK THOMPSON

Mrs. Ethel Stokes Green, 91, of Nanih Waiya, died Thursday, February 9, 2017, at her residence.

She was a native and longtime resident of the Nanih Waiya Community in Winston County. She worked for Spartus Corporation in Louisville until her retirement in 1991. Mrs. Green was a loving and caring wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. Her hobbies included taking care of her grands and gardening. She loved to travel and was fortunate enough to have the experience of riding a camel while visiting Israel at the age of 72. Mrs. Green was a member of New Covenant Assembly of God Church. She truly loved her church and her church family.

Survivors include her daughters, Catherine Page and her husband, Warren of Clinton and Margaret McDonald of Preston; son, Bobby Green of Preston; daughter-in-law, Dorothea Lowry of Preston; 16 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; sisters, Annie Cavender of Houston, TX, Wilma Oliver of Brooklyn, Marion Chase of Greenville and Iva Shaw of Leland; brother, Jimmy Stokes of Bakerfield, CA; and a host of nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Green was preceded in death by her husband of 70 years, Clarence Marshman Green; sons, Harold Green, Paul Green and Willie Floyd Green; grandsons, Jason Reed and Charlie Cross; parents, Willie Vester and Ira Bell Womble Stokes; sister, Lottie Hill; and brothers, Ben Whitehead, Joe Whitehead, Clyde Stokes, James Stokes, Robert Stokes and Willie Stokes.