Mary Green

Murrells Inlet Miss Mary Green passed away on July 3, 2006 after a long illness. Born September 10, 1927, she was the youngest daughter of the late Dr. Dove Walter Green and Irene Hardwick Green. She was a graduate of Conway High School and Coker College in Gartsville where she majored in religion, after which she worked as director of religions education and youth work at The Church of Our Savior in Rock Hill. She later held this same position at Grace Church in Charleston, SC. Subsequently, she became a caseworker at the Dept. of Social Services in Charleston and later in Georgetown. While in Charleston, she worked at the Charleston Orphan House, now Carolina Youth Development. While there she realized she wanted to go further with her education in Social Work, so she applied to Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts where she graduated in 1961 and worked in Washington, DC in Family Services for three and a half years after which she worked at the Florence Crittenton Home in Washington for three years. She returned to Charleston to work at the Mental Health Dept. as a clinical social worker. After some years there, she worked for the Franklin C. Fetter Family Health Center where she headed up the social work department. In 1976, she became the Executive Director of the Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina where she worked until her retirement in 1989. Miss Green was predeceased by sisters, Eunice Green Smith, Virginia Green Legare, brother, Dove Walter "Sonny" Green, Jr. and a niece, Irene Legare Leitch and a great niece, Eunice Green Logan. Surviving are sisters, Nina Green Wilkes and Melvin Green Nauss; brother in law, T. Allen Legare; nieces and nephews, Margaret Smith Garbe, Backman Smith III, Eunice Smith Logan, Walter Green Smith, Ginny Legare Townsend, Sara Legare Stuhr, Ned Legare, John Wilkes, Nina Tyler Wilkes, Cathy Wilkes Leonard, Ann Wilkes, Dove Walter "Dunny" Green, III, Sally Green Ryan, Mary Hope Green Glenn, Bob Green, Smith Nauss, Loren Nauss, Bill Nauss and Tim Nauss. Memorial services will be 4:00 PM, Sunday, July 9, 2006 at All Saints Church in Pawleys Island with The Reverend Terrell Glenn, Jr. officiating and The Reverend Alanson Houghton assisting. Burial will private. Friends are invited to the parish house Access Building for refreshment following the service. Memorials may be made to Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina, 19 Margaret St., Charleston, SC 29403 or The Smith Medical Clinic, PO Box 1740, Pawleys Island, SC 29585 or Miss Ruby's Kids, PO Box 1007, Georgetown, SC 29442.

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Mary Green

July 3, 2006