Lorena Green's Obituary
LORENA TANNER GREEN was called home July 8, 2012. She was born on November 9, 1922 to the parents of Andrew Beauregard Tanner and Leona Hood Tanner in Petal, Mississippi. She had nine siblings of which there are three surviving. The deceased are Ola Frances, Lola Mae, L.B., Leo, Baby Jack and Grace now gone to be with the Lord. Her surviving siblings are Buck Tanner from Viksburg, MS, Elinor Jean Tanner Crocker from Petal, MS and Carole Beth Tanner Wood from Harrison, AR. She met and married the love of her life at Camp Shelby in Mississippi where she worked. He told her he was going to marry her on their first date. After dating for a year, they were married two weeks after Pearl Harbor in 1941. Her husband, David Coleman Green preceded her in death in 2000. They were married for 58 years. They were parents to four girls, Lynda Green Anderson (Ted, deceased), Jeanne Green Courtney (Billy), Dorothy Green Finney (Steve), Debra Green Bell (Bobby) and 10 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Lorena was a member of the Eastern Star in Germantown, Tennessee. She worked with her husband for many years in their landscaping and nursery business. She was a long time member of Parkway Village Baptist Church and Colonial Baptist Church in Memphis. Lorena loved her family and was a prayer warrior all of her life. She gave her life to the Lord as a young child as her mother told her of Jesus and his amazing love for her. Her favorite hobby and passion was cooking and she was a great “southern cook”. Her last years were spent at the Memphis Jewish Home where she was loved and given great care. In Romans, Paul is writing the city of Rome and those who he knew from imprisonment there and to us today. In speaking of Abraham, Paul gives us a glimpse of a life lived, not without sin, but with consistency, dedication and perserverance and this verse speaks of that same life and legacy that our mother and grandmother has given to us, her family, “(S)he did not waiver in unbelief, but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God” Romans 4:20. Lorena will be greatly missed but – absent from the body – present with the Lord. The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until service time at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, July 12 at Memorial Park Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be made to the American Heart Association. Memorial Park Funeral Home, “Behind the stone wall”, 901-767-8930. Condolences may be offered at www.MemorialParkOnline.com
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