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Nellie Edith <I>Purser</I> Greene

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Nellie Edith Purser Greene

Birth
Stanly County, North Carolina, USA
Death
30 Jul 2002 (aged 89)
Stanly County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Stanfield, Stanly County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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STANFIELD -- Nell Purser Greene, 89, died Tuesday, July 30, 2002 at her residence.

Funeral service is 11 AM Thursday, August 1, at Love's Chapel United Methodist Church, with Reverend Molly VanDerwerken and Reverend Jim White officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7-9 PM tonight at Hartsell Funeral Home of Midland. They will assemble at the residence.

Mrs. Greene was born October 28, 1912 in Stanly County, a daughter of the late Ella Ophelia Presson Purser and Lemuel Francis Purser. She was a homemaker, widow of the late Dowd Franklin Greene, Sr., and a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Chapter 260 Midland, since 1952. Mrs. Greene was also a member of Love's Chapel United Methodist Church, a member of the United Methodist Women, and had previously been selected as "Woman of the Year'.

Survivors include her son, Dowd Franklin Greene, Jr. and wife, Paulette, of Stanfield, NC; daughters, Margaret Lee Greene and husband, Robert Furr, of Charlotte, NC, and Frances Vann Greene and husband, Terry Hinson, of Oakboro, NC; sisters, Louise and husband, Bobby Dennis, of Concord, and Betty Jo and husband, John Brooks, Sr. of Concord; seven grandchildren, Bartlette Furr and husband, James Compton, of Charlotte, Angela Denise Greene of Stanfield, NC, Terri Michelle Hinson of Oakboro, NC, William Robert Furr, II, and wife, Andrea, of Charlotte, NC, Terry Floyd and wife, Kena Hinson, Jr. of Mount Pleasant, NC, Beth Anne Greene and husband, William Janieri, of Albemarle, NC, and Robert Eugene and wife, Stacey Furr, of Monroe, NC; and nine great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Guy Franklin Purser, Tom Purser and Bob Purser; and five sisters, Flossie Beatrice Little, Flora Martha Tucker, Ella Geneva Honeycutt, Maude Frances Sides and Doris Helen Austin.

Hartsell Funeral Home, Midland is in charge of arrangements.

Obituary published in The Charlotte Observer on July 31, 2002.

The following information was sent by FindAGrave contributor, Charles Brooks.

Name: Nellie Edith Pusser Purser
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 1912
Birth County: Stanly
Parent1 Name: Lemuel Francis
Roll Number: NCVR_B_C089_66003
Volume: D-14
Page: 185

STANFIELD -- Nell Purser Greene, 89, died Tuesday, July 30, 2002 at her residence.

Funeral service is 11 AM Thursday, August 1, at Love's Chapel United Methodist Church, with Reverend Molly VanDerwerken and Reverend Jim White officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7-9 PM tonight at Hartsell Funeral Home of Midland. They will assemble at the residence.

Mrs. Greene was born October 28, 1912 in Stanly County, a daughter of the late Ella Ophelia Presson Purser and Lemuel Francis Purser. She was a homemaker, widow of the late Dowd Franklin Greene, Sr., and a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Chapter 260 Midland, since 1952. Mrs. Greene was also a member of Love's Chapel United Methodist Church, a member of the United Methodist Women, and had previously been selected as "Woman of the Year'.

Survivors include her son, Dowd Franklin Greene, Jr. and wife, Paulette, of Stanfield, NC; daughters, Margaret Lee Greene and husband, Robert Furr, of Charlotte, NC, and Frances Vann Greene and husband, Terry Hinson, of Oakboro, NC; sisters, Louise and husband, Bobby Dennis, of Concord, and Betty Jo and husband, John Brooks, Sr. of Concord; seven grandchildren, Bartlette Furr and husband, James Compton, of Charlotte, Angela Denise Greene of Stanfield, NC, Terri Michelle Hinson of Oakboro, NC, William Robert Furr, II, and wife, Andrea, of Charlotte, NC, Terry Floyd and wife, Kena Hinson, Jr. of Mount Pleasant, NC, Beth Anne Greene and husband, William Janieri, of Albemarle, NC, and Robert Eugene and wife, Stacey Furr, of Monroe, NC; and nine great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Guy Franklin Purser, Tom Purser and Bob Purser; and five sisters, Flossie Beatrice Little, Flora Martha Tucker, Ella Geneva Honeycutt, Maude Frances Sides and Doris Helen Austin.

Hartsell Funeral Home, Midland is in charge of arrangements.

Obituary published in The Charlotte Observer on July 31, 2002.

The following information was sent by FindAGrave contributor, Charles Brooks.

Name: Nellie Edith Pusser Purser
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 1912
Birth County: Stanly
Parent1 Name: Lemuel Francis
Roll Number: NCVR_B_C089_66003
Volume: D-14
Page: 185



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