Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Clara Lucille (Curtis) Greene
[She is buried at Driver Cemetery west of Fairfield]


Tyler Morning Telegraph 
12/30/2006 edition 
 
RUSK - Services for Clara Lucille Greene, 92, Rusk, are scheduled for 11 a.m.
Tuesday, at the new First Baptist Church in Rusk with the Revs. Lee Welch and
Jim Goforth officiating.

Graveside services will be 3 p.m. in Driver Cemetery under direction of 
Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home, Rusk.

Mrs. Greene died Dec. 29, 2006, in a Jacksonville hospital.

She was born Nov. 2, 1914, in Donie to the late Thomas Oliver and Emily 
Parazade Howell Curtis.

She was a Rusk resident for 31 years and formerly lived in Teague for 20 years
and Houston for 41 years.

She was a member of First Baptist Church, Rusk, where she taught the Lydia 
Sunday School Class for many years. She was active in the Women's Missionary 
Union.

She was a charter member of Houston's Cloverleaf Baptist Church.

Mrs. Greene and her late husband Karl owned and operated Greene's Hardware 
and Variety Store in Houston for 26 years and after retirement built and sold
wood furniture.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Karl Greene, Jan. 22, 2006; two
sisters, Betty Stovall and Fayrene Curtis; and three brothers, Cecil Curtis,
Bruce Curtis and Robert Curtis.

Survivors include a daughter, Nancy Anderson, Rusk; a son, Steve Greene, Rusk;
four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will include Danny Anderson, Craig Anderson, Chad Greene, Bobby 
Thrash, Kenny Curtis, and Norman Curtis.

Honorary pallbearers will be the Lydia Sunday School Class.

Family will receive friends 6-8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

If desired memorials may be made to First Baptist Church Building Fund, P.O. 
Box 258, Rusk, 75785.