Fred Stewart Greene

Mr. Fred Stewart Greene, 96, died Saturday, October 28, 2006 at his residence on Polk Lane in the Porter's Chapel Community. For 38 years, Mr. Greene was a dragline operator for Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, which became Mobil Chemical Company, where he retired in 1970. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. at Oakes & Nichols with Mike C. Greene officiating. Burial will be in Polk Memorial Gardens with military honors. The family will visit with friends Monday from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Notes of sympathy may be sent to www.oakesandnichols.com. The Maury County native was the son of the late Charles Vestal Greene and Birdie Trice Greene and attended school in the old Porter's Schoolhouse. During World War II he served in the U. S. Army from 1944 to 1946, attached to the 330th Engineers Battalion attaining the rank of Staff Sergeant. He served in Central Burma and the India-Burma Theatre of Operation and was awarded the World War II Victory ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, AP Theatre Ribbon and two Bronze Service Stars. Mr. Greene was well-known and respected in the community where he farmed and raised cattle for many years. His loving wife of 62 years, Vivian Pauline Dugger Greene, died July 12, 1997. Survivors include a daughter, Shirley (Don) Myers of Columbia; a son, Ronnie (Launita) Greene of Columbia; four grandchildren, Sherri (Joe) Garten, Mark (Rhonda) Myers, Britney (Sean) McGowan, and Stephanie (Seamus) McGowan; three great-grandchildren, Kelly Myers, Grant Stewart McGowan, and Reece Brennan McGowan; several nieces and nephews; special caregivers and friends, Laura Brown, Sharon Tinsley, and Helen Massey. He was preceded in death by an infant son, Jerry Edward Greene; two sisters, Bonnie Bell Connelly and Cordelia Greene Sims; five brothers, Herman Greene, C. V. Greene, Harry Greene, James Greene, and Talmadge Greene. Active pallbearers are Mark Myers, Joe Garten, Sean McGowan, Seamus McGowan, Kenneth Ham, and Walter Thomas Dugger, III. Honorary pallbearers include William "Wild Bill" Floyd, Ray Floyd, Wayne Greene, Phil Greene, Pat Greene, Larry Graham, Eddie Dugger, Tom Dugger, Roy McIntosh, Lynn Graves, Tommy Deford, Melvin Gibson, Steen Prouty, Dr. Cummins Couch, Dr. Janice Vinson, employees of Caris Hospice, friends in the Porter's Chapel Community, and past employees of Mobil Chemical Company in Mt. Pleasant.