Mitchell County NcArchives Obituaries.....Greene, Ray Claude March 3, 2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Julia Williams Kodak jkodak@aol.com March 14, 2008, 9:47 pm Mitchell News-Journal 3/12/2008 RAY CLAUDE GREENE BAKERSVILLE - Ray Claude Greene, 83, of Walnut Cove, died Monday, March 3, 2008 at the V.A. Medical Center in Asheville. Formerly of Bakersville, he was the son of the late Curtis Robert and Evelyn Webb Greene. He was also preceded in death by a daughter, Kathy Faye Greene; a sister, Mildred Upton; and a brother, Charles Greene. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War and a member of Willow Oak Baptist Church in Walnut Cove. Prior to leaving Bakersville, he was a member of Cub Creek Baptist Church, where he served as a deacon for many years, as well as other church offices. Survivors include his wife, Joyce Greene of the home; a daughter, Linda Willis of Walnut Cove; a sister, Pauline Whisnant of Mithalothian, Texas; and one granddaughter. Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Grindstaff Memorial Chapel of Webb Funeral Home in Spruce Pine. The Rev. Clifford Willis officiated. Burial was in Bakersville Cemetery. The family received friends from 1 p.m. until the service hour Thursday at the funeral home. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/mitchell/obits/g/greene1538gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb