Jim Green

Jim Green, 85, of Woodland Mills died Monday, Aug. 13, 2018, in the emergency room of Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Thursday at White-Ranson Funeral Home, with the Rev. Rick Burton officiating. Burial will follow in Mt. Moriah Cemetery with military honors.
Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Pallbearers will be the Men’s Sunday School Class of First Baptist Church Woodland Mills.
He was born July 22, 1933, in Obion County, son the late Robert Franklin and Bernice Estelle (Puckett) Green. He married Thelma Dee (Bruer) Green on Aug. 17, 1952. She survives.
He was an active member of First Baptist Church in Woodland Mills, where he taught the men’s Sunday School class for many years.
He graduated from high school in West Memphis, Ark., and was drafted into the United States Army on Dec. 10, 1953, where he served two years. He went to work at Kroger groceries for 10 years and worked at the Pepsi Cola Bottling Company in Memphis for 10 years.
He owned and operated the Woodland Market from 1974-1991, and was a retired bus driver for the Obion County School System and a guard at the former Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Union City. He was a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Post No. 176.
He is survived by his wife, Thelma Green of Woodland Mills; a son, Robert Steven Green of Union City; a daughter, Melanie (Chuck) Isbell of Union City; two grandchildren, Abby Nicole Edwards of Lewisburg, N.C., and Mandy Green Bruce of Union City; and two great-grandchildren, Tyler Bruce and Joey Witten, both of Union City.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.

Published 8.14.18