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Portrait of Arbie & Texie Greene
In Loving Memory of our Beloved Grandfather and Grandmother; Pap paw and Granny Greene

Arbie & Texie Greene

Pap Paw & Granny
April 2, 1911 – November 13, 1993
Lived 82 years
Bear Creek Baptist Church Cemertary · Bakersville, NC
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Arbie Greene

BAKERSVILLE – Arbie Greene, 82, of 155 Church Road, died Saturday.

Born April 2, 1911, in Burke County, he was a son of the late Dock Greene and Eva Burleson Greene. He was a member of the Bear Creek Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Texie Greene, and a son, Donald Greene.

Surviving are: two sons, Addy Greene and Arthur Greene, both of Bakersville; four daughters, Reva Willis of Bakersville, Cora Lee Hildebran of Connelly Springs, Josephine Sammons of Garner, and Lola Fletcher of Drexel; three sisters, Margie Greene of Spruce Pine, and Bertie English and Jane Wyatt, both of Marion; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Bear Creek Baptist Church with the Revs. Burl Presnell and Max Holland officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

The family will receive friends today from 7 to 9 p.m. at Webb Funeral Home where the body will remain until placed in the church one hour before the funeral.

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1911
Born April 2
1917
Arbie was 6 when the United States entered World War I
1929
Arbie was 18 when the stock market crashed on Black Tuesday
1939
Arbie was 28 when "The Wizard of Oz" opened in theaters
1940
Married: Texie Pearl Buchanan
1945
Arbie was 34 when World War II ended
1951
Arbie was 40 when "I Love Lucy" debuted on CBS
1969
Arbie was 58 when the Woodstock music festival opened
1971
Arbie was 60 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida
1982
Arbie was 71 when "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" opened in theaters
1991
Arbie was 80 when the Soviet Union dissolved
1993
Passed away November 13, age 82
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