Beckham County, OK - Obits: Virgil Rufus Green, 1996
Thursday, 5 July 2007	
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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GREEN, VIRGIL RUFUS
(The Sayre Journal, Sayre, Beckham, Ok, 14 Nov 1996)
Virgil Rufus Green, 91, died Nov. 11, 1996, in a Temple, Okla., nursing
home.  Funeral services were held Wednesday, Nov 13 in the Temple First
Baptist Church with Ruben Green officiating.  Burial was in the Carter
Cemetery under the direction of Hart-Wyatt Funeral Home of Temple.
Mr. Green was born Nov 22, 1904, near Sayre.  He grew up in and around
Sayre, where he graduated from high school and then attended Sayre Junior
College, receiving a degree in education.  He later graduated from
Oklahoma Baptist University and began preaching and ministering to many
small-town Baptist churches throughout Oklahoma.  He married Lida Lee
Broddrick and she died in 1962.  Mr. Green had made his home in Temple for
the past few years and was a member of the First Baptist Church.
He is also preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and four sisters.
He is survived by two sons, Marion Green of Wichita Falls, Texas, and
Willis Green of Lebanon, Mo., a daughter Loretta Morgan of Mooreland,
Okla., one brother, R. E. Green of New Mexico, six sisters, Edna White of
Sayre, Beaula Pascal of Ft. Worth, Texas; Willa Crawford and Dorothy
Davis, both of Lawton; Della Marie Owens of New Mexico and June Scroggins
of Grand Junction, Colo.; 11 grandchildren, several great grandchildren
and many other relatives and friends.