Agnes F. Greer, 86, of Bryan and formally of Houston, passed away on Saturday, May 8, 2010, in Bryan at St. Joseph Manor.
A funeral Mass is set for 10 a.m. Saturday, May 15, at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 9900 Stella Link Road in Houston. Interment will be at 3:30 p.m. at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Palestine, Texas. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 14, at Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
Published in The Bryan-College Station Eagle on May 13, 2010
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Jul. 23, 1923
Palestine
Anderson County
Texas, USA
Death: May 8, 2010
Texas, USA
Agnes F. Greer, 86, formally of Houston, Texas, passed away on Saturday, the 8th of May 2010, in Bryan, Texas, at The St. Joseph Manor, an assisted living facility.
"Aggie," as she was affectionately called, was born in Palestine, Texas to devout Catholic parents Joseph L. add Julia Fallwell. As a native of Palestine, Texas, she attended and graduated from the parochial school, St. Mary's Academy, adjacent to The Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Aggie continued her education by pursing and earning her RN designation at the Incarnate Word and the Santa Rosa Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. Shortly afterwards, Aggie entered the Army Nurse Corps as a Lieutenant in March 1945. Her parents were none to pleased as she had two brothers already in active military service.
Aggie spent two years in the Army, stationed on the east coast of the US, in France and in Germany. She sailed to Europe and recalls crossing the mine-filled English Channel as a "shaky experience". But then there was Paris. And for Aggie, she recalls Paris as being the best experience of her career. She spoke a little French before arriving and improved it enough to enjoy fully the life in France and what it had to offer. She developed the taste for champagne while in France, mainly because the local supply of drinkable water was scarce. She and her roommates would put the bottles outside their windows to chill in the snow.
From France, Aggie went on to Germany where she was based in Regensburg. Conditions there were bad and the entire area showed signs of heavy bombing. She had little contact with the German people, but does not remember animosity directed toward the Americans there. While in Germany she attended the Nuremberg Trials and felt fortunate to have had the experience since spectator viewing was strictly limited. She was honorably discharged in Dec. 1946 at the rank of 1st Lieutenant and received two decorations and citations, those being the World War II victory Medal and Army of Occupation Medal (Germany).
After the Army, Aggie traveled and settled in Houston. The transition from Army nursing, wherein rules were stretched to meet the unusual circumstances and responsibility was allocated in large doses to all, to the strict regulations of civilian hospital routine in the States was a difficult one, and Aggie chose to go her own way. She worked with the Red Cross in the Texas City disaster of 1947. She married Boyd "Jing" Greer in November 1948. Shortly afterwards, she began her private duty nursing by taking care of "Silver Dollar" Jim West. Jim West was known as an eccentric millionaire in the greater Houston area. To pass the time either in his home or his private room at Hermann Hospital, the two played Gin Rummy for $1 per point. Aggie collected and won enough silver dollars to purchase an Oldsmobile '98 in the mid-1950's. Sadly, Jim West died in 1957, but Aggie then joined forces with Dr. Mavis Kelsey in taking care of Governor W.P. Hobby as his full-time nurse until his death in 1964.
Dr. Kelsey pursued Aggie as his personal nurse for the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. He described her talents of being able to handle people with kindness, courtesy and understanding, treating the rich and poor alike and always putting the patients first. She accepted the position and held it for 22 years with no obligation and purely for the love of her patients. Her stringent work ethics and family upbringing were most important in the molding and development of Aggie's exemplary character which her friends, colleagues and patients admired so highly. Aggie was the honored recipient of the Employee of the Year 1975 at the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic.
Since her retirement in 1986, Aggie has traveled, toured and tasted the world and all it has to offer. Her excursions have taken her to all parts of the world including most countries in Europe, Russia, Egypt, Antarctica, South America, but her most traveled and favorite destination was Paris, France. She toured and explored this city over 15 times and absorbed all its cultural arts, architecture, food and wine that makes it so famous and alluring. Sadly, Aggie's adventures slowed down in later life and she moved into an assisted living facility in Bryan, TX in the fall of 2008 to be closer to her nephew who oversaw her comfort and well being.
She was preceded in death by husband, Boyd M. Greer; parents, Joseph L. Fallwell and Julia Fallwell; and brothers, Frank Fallwell, and Clarence W. Fallwell of Kingwood, TX (who passed away just hours before Aggie). Survivors include; nephews, Patrick Fallwell of Kingwood, TX and Michael Fallwell of St. Louis, MO; niece, Susan Wiland of Hampshire, IL; nephews Bill Fallwell of Bryan, TX, Phil Fallwell of Crosby, TX and Tim Fallwell of Crosby, TX; numerous cousins, hundreds of patients and fellow workers, friends and neighbors. She will be missed by all.
The family would like to express appreciation to the administrators and the staff of St. Joseph Assisted Living Facility along with her personal companion Lavern Cockran.
Arrangements in Houston are entrusted to Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, The Funeral Directors – Since 1936, 713.789.3005, www.geohlewis.com.
Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o'clock in the afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening on Friday, the 14th of May, in the Parlor of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
The funeral mass is to held at ten o'clock in the morning on Saturday, the 15th of May, at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 9900 Stella Link Road in Houston, where the Rev. Robert Chabot is to serve as Celebrant. The interment service will follow at half past-three o'clock in the afternoon at the St. Joseph's Cemetery in Palestine, Texas.
A funeral Mass is set for 10 a.m. Saturday, May 15, at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 9900 Stella Link Road in Houston. Interment will be at 3:30 p.m. at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Palestine, Texas. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 14, at Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
Published in The Bryan-College Station Eagle on May 13, 2010
----------------------------
Jul. 23, 1923
Palestine
Anderson County
Texas, USA
Death: May 8, 2010
Texas, USA
Agnes F. Greer, 86, formally of Houston, Texas, passed away on Saturday, the 8th of May 2010, in Bryan, Texas, at The St. Joseph Manor, an assisted living facility.
"Aggie," as she was affectionately called, was born in Palestine, Texas to devout Catholic parents Joseph L. add Julia Fallwell. As a native of Palestine, Texas, she attended and graduated from the parochial school, St. Mary's Academy, adjacent to The Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Aggie continued her education by pursing and earning her RN designation at the Incarnate Word and the Santa Rosa Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. Shortly afterwards, Aggie entered the Army Nurse Corps as a Lieutenant in March 1945. Her parents were none to pleased as she had two brothers already in active military service.
Aggie spent two years in the Army, stationed on the east coast of the US, in France and in Germany. She sailed to Europe and recalls crossing the mine-filled English Channel as a "shaky experience". But then there was Paris. And for Aggie, she recalls Paris as being the best experience of her career. She spoke a little French before arriving and improved it enough to enjoy fully the life in France and what it had to offer. She developed the taste for champagne while in France, mainly because the local supply of drinkable water was scarce. She and her roommates would put the bottles outside their windows to chill in the snow.
From France, Aggie went on to Germany where she was based in Regensburg. Conditions there were bad and the entire area showed signs of heavy bombing. She had little contact with the German people, but does not remember animosity directed toward the Americans there. While in Germany she attended the Nuremberg Trials and felt fortunate to have had the experience since spectator viewing was strictly limited. She was honorably discharged in Dec. 1946 at the rank of 1st Lieutenant and received two decorations and citations, those being the World War II victory Medal and Army of Occupation Medal (Germany).
After the Army, Aggie traveled and settled in Houston. The transition from Army nursing, wherein rules were stretched to meet the unusual circumstances and responsibility was allocated in large doses to all, to the strict regulations of civilian hospital routine in the States was a difficult one, and Aggie chose to go her own way. She worked with the Red Cross in the Texas City disaster of 1947. She married Boyd "Jing" Greer in November 1948. Shortly afterwards, she began her private duty nursing by taking care of "Silver Dollar" Jim West. Jim West was known as an eccentric millionaire in the greater Houston area. To pass the time either in his home or his private room at Hermann Hospital, the two played Gin Rummy for $1 per point. Aggie collected and won enough silver dollars to purchase an Oldsmobile '98 in the mid-1950's. Sadly, Jim West died in 1957, but Aggie then joined forces with Dr. Mavis Kelsey in taking care of Governor W.P. Hobby as his full-time nurse until his death in 1964.
Dr. Kelsey pursued Aggie as his personal nurse for the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. He described her talents of being able to handle people with kindness, courtesy and understanding, treating the rich and poor alike and always putting the patients first. She accepted the position and held it for 22 years with no obligation and purely for the love of her patients. Her stringent work ethics and family upbringing were most important in the molding and development of Aggie's exemplary character which her friends, colleagues and patients admired so highly. Aggie was the honored recipient of the Employee of the Year 1975 at the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic.
Since her retirement in 1986, Aggie has traveled, toured and tasted the world and all it has to offer. Her excursions have taken her to all parts of the world including most countries in Europe, Russia, Egypt, Antarctica, South America, but her most traveled and favorite destination was Paris, France. She toured and explored this city over 15 times and absorbed all its cultural arts, architecture, food and wine that makes it so famous and alluring. Sadly, Aggie's adventures slowed down in later life and she moved into an assisted living facility in Bryan, TX in the fall of 2008 to be closer to her nephew who oversaw her comfort and well being.
She was preceded in death by husband, Boyd M. Greer; parents, Joseph L. Fallwell and Julia Fallwell; and brothers, Frank Fallwell, and Clarence W. Fallwell of Kingwood, TX (who passed away just hours before Aggie). Survivors include; nephews, Patrick Fallwell of Kingwood, TX and Michael Fallwell of St. Louis, MO; niece, Susan Wiland of Hampshire, IL; nephews Bill Fallwell of Bryan, TX, Phil Fallwell of Crosby, TX and Tim Fallwell of Crosby, TX; numerous cousins, hundreds of patients and fellow workers, friends and neighbors. She will be missed by all.
The family would like to express appreciation to the administrators and the staff of St. Joseph Assisted Living Facility along with her personal companion Lavern Cockran.
Arrangements in Houston are entrusted to Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, The Funeral Directors – Since 1936, 713.789.3005, www.geohlewis.com.
Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o'clock in the afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening on Friday, the 14th of May, in the Parlor of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
The funeral mass is to held at ten o'clock in the morning on Saturday, the 15th of May, at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 9900 Stella Link Road in Houston, where the Rev. Robert Chabot is to serve as Celebrant. The interment service will follow at half past-three o'clock in the afternoon at the St. Joseph's Cemetery in Palestine, Texas.
Agnes F. Greer, 86, of Bryan and formally of Houston, passed away on Saturday, May 8, 2010, in Bryan at St. Joseph Manor.
A funeral Mass is set for 10 a.m. Saturday, May 15, at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 9900 Stella Link Road in Houston. Interment will be at 3:30 p.m. at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Palestine, Texas. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 14, at Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
Published in The Bryan-College Station Eagle on May 13, 2010
----------------------------
Jul. 23, 1923
Palestine
Anderson County
Texas, USA
Death: May 8, 2010
Texas, USA
Agnes F. Greer, 86, formally of Houston, Texas, passed away on Saturday, the 8th of May 2010, in Bryan, Texas, at The St. Joseph Manor, an assisted living facility.
"Aggie," as she was affectionately called, was born in Palestine, Texas to devout Catholic parents Joseph L. add Julia Fallwell. As a native of Palestine, Texas, she attended and graduated from the parochial school, St. Mary's Academy, adjacent to The Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Aggie continued her education by pursing and earning her RN designation at the Incarnate Word and the Santa Rosa Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. Shortly afterwards, Aggie entered the Army Nurse Corps as a Lieutenant in March 1945. Her parents were none to pleased as she had two brothers already in active military service.
Aggie spent two years in the Army, stationed on the east coast of the US, in France and in Germany. She sailed to Europe and recalls crossing the mine-filled English Channel as a "shaky experience". But then there was Paris. And for Aggie, she recalls Paris as being the best experience of her career. She spoke a little French before arriving and improved it enough to enjoy fully the life in France and what it had to offer. She developed the taste for champagne while in France, mainly because the local supply of drinkable water was scarce. She and her roommates would put the bottles outside their windows to chill in the snow.
From France, Aggie went on to Germany where she was based in Regensburg. Conditions there were bad and the entire area showed signs of heavy bombing. She had little contact with the German people, but does not remember animosity directed toward the Americans there. While in Germany she attended the Nuremberg Trials and felt fortunate to have had the experience since spectator viewing was strictly limited. She was honorably discharged in Dec. 1946 at the rank of 1st Lieutenant and received two decorations and citations, those being the World War II victory Medal and Army of Occupation Medal (Germany).
After the Army, Aggie traveled and settled in Houston. The transition from Army nursing, wherein rules were stretched to meet the unusual circumstances and responsibility was allocated in large doses to all, to the strict regulations of civilian hospital routine in the States was a difficult one, and Aggie chose to go her own way. She worked with the Red Cross in the Texas City disaster of 1947. She married Boyd "Jing" Greer in November 1948. Shortly afterwards, she began her private duty nursing by taking care of "Silver Dollar" Jim West. Jim West was known as an eccentric millionaire in the greater Houston area. To pass the time either in his home or his private room at Hermann Hospital, the two played Gin Rummy for $1 per point. Aggie collected and won enough silver dollars to purchase an Oldsmobile '98 in the mid-1950's. Sadly, Jim West died in 1957, but Aggie then joined forces with Dr. Mavis Kelsey in taking care of Governor W.P. Hobby as his full-time nurse until his death in 1964.
Dr. Kelsey pursued Aggie as his personal nurse for the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. He described her talents of being able to handle people with kindness, courtesy and understanding, treating the rich and poor alike and always putting the patients first. She accepted the position and held it for 22 years with no obligation and purely for the love of her patients. Her stringent work ethics and family upbringing were most important in the molding and development of Aggie's exemplary character which her friends, colleagues and patients admired so highly. Aggie was the honored recipient of the Employee of the Year 1975 at the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic.
Since her retirement in 1986, Aggie has traveled, toured and tasted the world and all it has to offer. Her excursions have taken her to all parts of the world including most countries in Europe, Russia, Egypt, Antarctica, South America, but her most traveled and favorite destination was Paris, France. She toured and explored this city over 15 times and absorbed all its cultural arts, architecture, food and wine that makes it so famous and alluring. Sadly, Aggie's adventures slowed down in later life and she moved into an assisted living facility in Bryan, TX in the fall of 2008 to be closer to her nephew who oversaw her comfort and well being.
She was preceded in death by husband, Boyd M. Greer; parents, Joseph L. Fallwell and Julia Fallwell; and brothers, Frank Fallwell, and Clarence W. Fallwell of Kingwood, TX (who passed away just hours before Aggie). Survivors include; nephews, Patrick Fallwell of Kingwood, TX and Michael Fallwell of St. Louis, MO; niece, Susan Wiland of Hampshire, IL; nephews Bill Fallwell of Bryan, TX, Phil Fallwell of Crosby, TX and Tim Fallwell of Crosby, TX; numerous cousins, hundreds of patients and fellow workers, friends and neighbors. She will be missed by all.
The family would like to express appreciation to the administrators and the staff of St. Joseph Assisted Living Facility along with her personal companion Lavern Cockran.
Arrangements in Houston are entrusted to Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, The Funeral Directors – Since 1936, 713.789.3005, www.geohlewis.com.
Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o'clock in the afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening on Friday, the 14th of May, in the Parlor of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
The funeral mass is to held at ten o'clock in the morning on Saturday, the 15th of May, at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 9900 Stella Link Road in Houston, where the Rev. Robert Chabot is to serve as Celebrant. The interment service will follow at half past-three o'clock in the afternoon at the St. Joseph's Cemetery in Palestine, Texas.
A funeral Mass is set for 10 a.m. Saturday, May 15, at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 9900 Stella Link Road in Houston. Interment will be at 3:30 p.m. at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Palestine, Texas. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 14, at Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
Published in The Bryan-College Station Eagle on May 13, 2010
----------------------------
Jul. 23, 1923
Palestine
Anderson County
Texas, USA
Death: May 8, 2010
Texas, USA
Agnes F. Greer, 86, formally of Houston, Texas, passed away on Saturday, the 8th of May 2010, in Bryan, Texas, at The St. Joseph Manor, an assisted living facility.
"Aggie," as she was affectionately called, was born in Palestine, Texas to devout Catholic parents Joseph L. add Julia Fallwell. As a native of Palestine, Texas, she attended and graduated from the parochial school, St. Mary's Academy, adjacent to The Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Aggie continued her education by pursing and earning her RN designation at the Incarnate Word and the Santa Rosa Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. Shortly afterwards, Aggie entered the Army Nurse Corps as a Lieutenant in March 1945. Her parents were none to pleased as she had two brothers already in active military service.
Aggie spent two years in the Army, stationed on the east coast of the US, in France and in Germany. She sailed to Europe and recalls crossing the mine-filled English Channel as a "shaky experience". But then there was Paris. And for Aggie, she recalls Paris as being the best experience of her career. She spoke a little French before arriving and improved it enough to enjoy fully the life in France and what it had to offer. She developed the taste for champagne while in France, mainly because the local supply of drinkable water was scarce. She and her roommates would put the bottles outside their windows to chill in the snow.
From France, Aggie went on to Germany where she was based in Regensburg. Conditions there were bad and the entire area showed signs of heavy bombing. She had little contact with the German people, but does not remember animosity directed toward the Americans there. While in Germany she attended the Nuremberg Trials and felt fortunate to have had the experience since spectator viewing was strictly limited. She was honorably discharged in Dec. 1946 at the rank of 1st Lieutenant and received two decorations and citations, those being the World War II victory Medal and Army of Occupation Medal (Germany).
After the Army, Aggie traveled and settled in Houston. The transition from Army nursing, wherein rules were stretched to meet the unusual circumstances and responsibility was allocated in large doses to all, to the strict regulations of civilian hospital routine in the States was a difficult one, and Aggie chose to go her own way. She worked with the Red Cross in the Texas City disaster of 1947. She married Boyd "Jing" Greer in November 1948. Shortly afterwards, she began her private duty nursing by taking care of "Silver Dollar" Jim West. Jim West was known as an eccentric millionaire in the greater Houston area. To pass the time either in his home or his private room at Hermann Hospital, the two played Gin Rummy for $1 per point. Aggie collected and won enough silver dollars to purchase an Oldsmobile '98 in the mid-1950's. Sadly, Jim West died in 1957, but Aggie then joined forces with Dr. Mavis Kelsey in taking care of Governor W.P. Hobby as his full-time nurse until his death in 1964.
Dr. Kelsey pursued Aggie as his personal nurse for the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. He described her talents of being able to handle people with kindness, courtesy and understanding, treating the rich and poor alike and always putting the patients first. She accepted the position and held it for 22 years with no obligation and purely for the love of her patients. Her stringent work ethics and family upbringing were most important in the molding and development of Aggie's exemplary character which her friends, colleagues and patients admired so highly. Aggie was the honored recipient of the Employee of the Year 1975 at the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic.
Since her retirement in 1986, Aggie has traveled, toured and tasted the world and all it has to offer. Her excursions have taken her to all parts of the world including most countries in Europe, Russia, Egypt, Antarctica, South America, but her most traveled and favorite destination was Paris, France. She toured and explored this city over 15 times and absorbed all its cultural arts, architecture, food and wine that makes it so famous and alluring. Sadly, Aggie's adventures slowed down in later life and she moved into an assisted living facility in Bryan, TX in the fall of 2008 to be closer to her nephew who oversaw her comfort and well being.
She was preceded in death by husband, Boyd M. Greer; parents, Joseph L. Fallwell and Julia Fallwell; and brothers, Frank Fallwell, and Clarence W. Fallwell of Kingwood, TX (who passed away just hours before Aggie). Survivors include; nephews, Patrick Fallwell of Kingwood, TX and Michael Fallwell of St. Louis, MO; niece, Susan Wiland of Hampshire, IL; nephews Bill Fallwell of Bryan, TX, Phil Fallwell of Crosby, TX and Tim Fallwell of Crosby, TX; numerous cousins, hundreds of patients and fellow workers, friends and neighbors. She will be missed by all.
The family would like to express appreciation to the administrators and the staff of St. Joseph Assisted Living Facility along with her personal companion Lavern Cockran.
Arrangements in Houston are entrusted to Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, The Funeral Directors – Since 1936, 713.789.3005, www.geohlewis.com.
Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o'clock in the afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening on Friday, the 14th of May, in the Parlor of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
The funeral mass is to held at ten o'clock in the morning on Saturday, the 15th of May, at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 9900 Stella Link Road in Houston, where the Rev. Robert Chabot is to serve as Celebrant. The interment service will follow at half past-three o'clock in the afternoon at the St. Joseph's Cemetery in Palestine, Texas.
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