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Blanche Maurie Green

Female 1913 - 2010  (97 years)


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  • Name Blanche Maurie Green  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Birth 12 Jan 1913  Paxton, Shelby County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Gender Female 
    Death 16 Jul 2010  Woodville, Tyler County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6
    Burial Magnolia Cemetery, Woodville, Tyler County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Notes 
    • 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
    Person ID I43576  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 19 Dec 2020 

    Father Ralph Eugene Green,   b. 10 Feb 1881, Panola County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Mar 1964, Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Nettie Ann Cammack,   b. 17 Jul 1889, Shelby County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jul 1973, Paxton, Shelby County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Marriage 14 Feb 1909  Shelby County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6953  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Bob Floyd "Bobby" Phillips,   b. 30 Jan 1909, Woodville, Tyler County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Nov 1948, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years) 
    Marriage 29 Oct 1938  [3, 6
    Children 
     1. Living
     2. Living
    Family ID F9316  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Aug 2013 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 12 Jan 1913 - Paxton, Shelby County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 16 Jul 2010 - Woodville, Tyler County, Texas Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S483] 1920 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005, (For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the NARA web page. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1920 United States Federal Census, the Fourteenth Census of the United States. It includes all states and territories, as well as Military and Naval Forces, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the Panama Canal Zone. The census provides many details about individuals and families including: name, gender, age, birthplace, year of immigration, mother tongue, and parents? birthplaces. In addition, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1920 Federal Census.), Texas, Shelby County, JP 5 Enumerated 30 Jan 1920 SD 326 ED 192 Sheet 10A 205-207 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S564] 1930 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com. database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002., (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. Containing records for approximately 123 million Americans, the 1930 United States Federal Census is the largest census released to date and is the most recent census available for public access. The census gives us a glimpse into the lives of Americans in 1930, and contains information about a household?s family members and occupants including: birthplaces, occupations, immigration, citizenship, and military service. The names of those listed in the census are linked to actual images of the 1930 Census.), Texas, Shelby County, JP 5 Enumerated 9 Spr 1930 ED 210-16 SD 12 Sheet 7B Highway No. 35 149-151 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S1661] Phillips, Blanche Green (Deceased)-Family Researcher, Woodville, Texas, 1989 Family Group Sheet and 1990 Ancestor Chart (Courtesy of Bob Phillips).

    4. [S1111] FamilySearch.org, Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935.

    5. [S333] Ancestry.com - U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current [database online], (Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence.).

    6. [S873] Find A Grave [database online]; http://www.findagrave.com/, (Thousands of contributors submit new listings, updates, corrections, photographs and virtual flowers every hour to the FIND A GRAVE website. When it comes to administrating, building and maintaining the site, Find A Grave is largely operated by its founder, Jim Tipton.), # 55078688 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S1661] Phillips, Blanche Green (Deceased)-Family Researcher, Woodville, Texas, 1989 Family Group Sheet and 1990 Ancestor Chart (Courtesy of Bob Phillips), She shows Paxton as the place of birth (Reliability: 3).