Services for Thelma Ruth Green, 81, of Manchester, who died Sunday, Jan. 17, after an extended illness, will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at Coffee County Funeral Chapel with burial in Riverside Cemetery in Cannon County. Odell Powell will officiate.
She was the daughter of the late Chrisley Messick and Ella Wilson Messick, the widow of Oscar Cecil Green and was preceded in death by sons Billy Green and Oscar Cecil Green Jr.
She is survived by sons Marvin Green, Frank Donald Green, and Melvin Green, all of Woodbury, Jimmy Green of Bradyville; daughters Ruby Velasco of Monterey Park, Calif., Betty Grissom of Woodbury, Melba Emptage of Whittier, Calif., Joyce Burns of Murfreesboro, Peggy Sain of Manchester; a sister, Bernice Bush of Tullahoma; stepsister Oma Jean Sherrill of Bradyville; 21 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. (Daily News Journal Jan. 18, 1999, Murfreesboro, Tenn.)
Services for Thelma Ruth Green, 81, of Manchester, who died Sunday, Jan. 17, after an extended illness, will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at Coffee County Funeral Chapel with burial in Riverside Cemetery in Cannon County. Odell Powell will officiate.
She was the daughter of the late Chrisley Messick and Ella Wilson Messick, the widow of Oscar Cecil Green and was preceded in death by sons Billy Green and Oscar Cecil Green Jr.
She is survived by sons Marvin Green, Frank Donald Green, and Melvin Green, all of Woodbury, Jimmy Green of Bradyville; daughters Ruby Velasco of Monterey Park, Calif., Betty Grissom of Woodbury, Melba Emptage of Whittier, Calif., Joyce Burns of Murfreesboro, Peggy Sain of Manchester; a sister, Bernice Bush of Tullahoma; stepsister Oma Jean Sherrill of Bradyville; 21 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. (Daily News Journal Jan. 18, 1999, Murfreesboro, Tenn.)
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