Margie Espie Kemp
Green
Submitted by Gary Pace
FROM THE CARTHAGE
COURIER CARTHAGE, TN THURSDAY
18 APR 1996
Transcribed by Fred and Elaine Brown Ryan
Mrs. Margie Kemp Green
of Carthage died at 4:30 a.m. Friday morning, April 12, 1996, at the Mt. Juliet
Health Care Center at the age of 78 following a lengthy illness. Funeral
services were conducted Saturday afternoon, April 13, at 3:00 p.m. from the
Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Eld. Lonnie Mozingo, Jr. officiated
at the services and Burial followed in the Defeated Creek Memorial Gardens.
The daughter of the
late Willie and Ina Lemons Kemp, Mrs. Green was born in Defeated Creek. She was
preceded in death on March 5, 1991, by her husband, Raymond Green. For many
years, ending in the late 1970's, she and her husband Owned & Operated the
Walton Hotel and Dining Room before their retirement. Mrs. Green was a member
of the Bethel Primitive Baptist Church in Nashville. Mrs. Green was preceded in
death on February 28,
1981, by a daughter, Carolyn Green Anderson.
Surviving are two
daughters, Barbara Green Sircy of Carthage and Patricia Norris of Carthage; one
Son, LaDon Green of Mt. Juliet; three sisters: Lucy Patterson of Carthage,
Grady Brown and Edgie Lankford, both of Nashville; one brother, Ester Kemp of
Defeated Creek; ten grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren; two
great-greatgrandchildren.
Sanderson Funeral Home
of Carthage, Directors.