Funeral services for Mrs. Mildred McKee Green, member of an old Brookhaven family, will be held Wednesday, 2 p.m., in Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Rosehill Cemetery.
Mrs. Green died Feb. 25 in Silver Cross Nursing Home at the age of 84. She is survived by one brother, James S. McKee, and three sisters, Mrs. Murray David, Mrs. Leonard T. Harris, and Mrs. Randolph Fairfax, all of Brookhaven, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Daughter of the late James Walter and Lulu McKee, Mrs. Green was a graduate of Co-Lin Junior College and of Mississippi Southern. She also did graduate work at Peabody College. She taught in the city school system of Hattiesburg for a number of years, then returned to Brookhaven to open Mildred's Kindergarten in the fall of 1947. She closed the school at her retirement in 1979.
Mildred's Kindergarten was the first kindergarten in Brookhaven and one of the first in the state to be certified. More than 1,000 youngesters attended the school during the years it was in operation.
Mrs. Green was a member of First United Methodist Church.
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Funeral services for Mrs. Mildred McKee Green, member of an old Brookhaven family, will be held Wednesday, 2 p.m., in Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Rosehill Cemetery.
Mrs. Green died Feb. 25 in Silver Cross Nursing Home at the age of 84. She is survived by one brother, James S. McKee, and three sisters, Mrs. Murray David, Mrs. Leonard T. Harris, and Mrs. Randolph Fairfax, all of Brookhaven, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Daughter of the late James Walter and Lulu McKee, Mrs. Green was a graduate of Co-Lin Junior College and of Mississippi Southern. She also did graduate work at Peabody College. She taught in the city school system of Hattiesburg for a number of years, then returned to Brookhaven to open Mildred's Kindergarten in the fall of 1947. She closed the school at her retirement in 1979.
Mildred's Kindergarten was the first kindergarten in Brookhaven and one of the first in the state to be certified. More than 1,000 youngesters attended the school during the years it was in operation.
Mrs. Green was a member of First United Methodist Church.
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