Carole Green

Carole Wayne Gibson Green (December, 1934 – March, 2013) A Great Lady, Carole Wayne Gibson Green, has gone on ahead of the rest of us – has slipped through thin space, as the ancient Celts would say, and into the arms of God. She was an avid golfer, yoga student and traveler. A resident of Orange, California since 1985, she was a Charter Docent at the President Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California and served there for over twenty years. She enjoyed meeting and talking with the many Library visitors from across the country and around the world; she considered the staff and her fellow Docents as a part of her family. With a legal assistant’s education from Meramec College in St. Louis, Missouri, Carole worked for twelve years in the local office of United States Senator John C. Danforth. She retained her interest in politics for the rest of her life, entertaining friends and family with her witty, insightful and occasionally iconoclastic analyses. She also remained close to her grade school and high school friends from Rock Creek School and William Chrisman High School in Independence, Missouri. She was a regular attendee at their class reunions. Carole was born in Kansas City, MO to Lolan Wayne Gibson and Ilabelle Geraldine Farrar Gibson in December of 1934 and passed away in the afternoon of March 22nd, 2013 at her home in Orange, California after a long battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Daniel Green, and three sons – Mark Green (and wife Connie) of Manchester, Missouri, Alan Green (and wife Colleen) of Plainfield, Illinois and Kent Green (and wife Wendy) of Catawissa, Missouri – as well as her sister, Sharon Gibson of Kansas City, Missouri. Her grandchildren are Heather Green Jennings (and husband Darren) and Laural Green, daughters of Mark and Connie, and Matthew Green, son of Alan and Colleen. She has one great grandson, Henry Jennings, by Darren and Heather. Services for her will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 5th, at the Speaks Suburban Chapel at 18020 East 39th Street South in Independence, Missouri with private burial to follow. We grieve for her, dealing now with the holes in our lives her departure has made, but we acknowledge her triumph at the same time and rejoice that she was a part of our lives. Hers was a long life and well lived. The memories of so many vacations and family gatherings she and Dan continued to set up over the decades stay with us and always bring smiles with them. Truly, she left the world a better place for her having passed through it.