Blanche Maurie Green

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Name Blanche Maurie Green
Event Type Birth
Event Date 12 Jan 1913
Event Place Paxton, Shelby, Texas, United States
Gender Female
Father's Name R E Green
Mother's Name Nettie A Cammack
Certificate Number 2325
Digital Folder Number 004136864
Image Number 00214

Citing this Record:
"Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1935," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X213-SN5 : accessed 15 Aug 2013), Blanche Maurie Green, 1913.

Obituary, copied from FindAGrave:

Blanche Maurie Green Phillips, 97, of Woodville, Texas, passed away, Friday, July 16, 2010 at The Orchard Assisted Living Center in Woodville, Texas.

Blanche was born in Panola County, Texas on January 12, 1913 to Ralph Eugene and Nettie Ann Green. In 1918, the family built a home near Paxton, Texas where she spent her early years living and working on the family farm.

After graduating from Tenaha High School, she became a first grade teacher at Paxton School where she taught her brother, Ralph and sister, Nelwyn. She, after three years of teaching and saving, enrolled in CIA, now Texas Women's University.

After graduation, she became the first Home Economics teacher in Burkeville, Texas and it was there that she met and married fellow teacher and coach, Bob Phillips. Over the next few years they had two sons and built a home in Bob's hometown of Woodville where he supervised the Vocational Education programs for returning WWII veterans.

Bob's untimely death in 1948 began a new and challenging chapter in the lives of Blanche and her sons. After a year of teaching in Woodville, she returned to TSCW/TWU to finish her master's degree and taught in Nacogdoches and Woodville until 1955 when she became an assistant professor at Sam Houston State College.

In 1957 she entered Ohio State University, eventually earning a PhD. The now, Dr. Blanche Phillips accepted her longtime position as Dean of the School of Home Economics at Stephen F. Austin College, now SFASU. Her final years before retirement were spent at the University of Houston.

Over the course of her life and career, Dr. Phillips touched, enriched and inspired the lives of countless people, many of whom are still close friends and adopted extended family to this day.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Ralph Eugene and Nettie Ann Green; brothers, Dr. Clarence Green and James Harold (Buck) Green; and sisters, Allene Green and Nelwyn Phillips.

She is survived by a brother, Dr. Ralph Green and a sister, Esther Adams. Also sons, Ralph Phillips and Bob Phillips, daughter-in-law, Dorothy Phillips; grandchildren, Stacy McCoy & husband, Chris McCoy, Joan Phillips & her fianc?e , Will Patterson; great grandchildren, Brenden Phillips and Bailey McCoy.


Funeral services will be Monday, July 19th at 10:30 a.m. at Stringer & Griffin Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in Magnolia Cemetery all in Woodville.


Obituary - Stringer & Griffin Funeral Home, Woodville, Texas; July 17, 2010

Blanche married Bob Floyd "Bobby" Phillips on 29 Oct 1938. Bob was born on 30 Jan 1909 in Woodville, Tyler County, Texas; died on 3 Nov 1948 in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas; was buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]