Victor Eldon Green (Plainview)

Victor E. Green 84, died October 6, 2008 after a brief illness. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Friday, October 10, 2008 at First Baptist Church in Plainview with Dr. Travis Hart officiating. Burial will follow in Plainview Memorial Park under the direction of Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Plainview. Mr. Green was born in a farmhouse in the Center community of Floyd County, Texas on Easter Sunday, April 20, 1924 -- the second of four children born to James Emanuel and Fannie Matthews Green. He grew up in the Center community and attended Center School for the first nine grades. He graduated from Floydada High School in 1940. He made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ as his personal savior and joined the Center Baptist Church in May, 1934, at age 10. He entered Wayland Baptist Junior College in Plainview in the fall of 1940. He graduated with the class of 1943 and immediately entered the U. S. Army. He served as a Bombardier-Navigator on a B-25 Medium Bomber in the U.S. Army Air Corps and was discharged in November 1945. He returned to Plainview after the war and worked for Peoples Produce Co., where he had previously worked part time while attending Wayland. In the spring of 1948 he left Plainview and went to work for his cousin Anthony Latta on a farm in Crosby County, Texas. While there he became ill with polio, and after hospitalization he returned to the family home in the Center community for a year before he was able to work again. He returned to Plainview and, through the kindness of Mr. Emory Huggins, ran a route of vending machines for a year and then returned to Peoples Produce Co. From 1951 to 1955 he worked at the U.S. Post Office in Plainview -- first as a substitute clerk-carrier and later as a regular carrier. In 1955 he returned to the poultry and egg company which by then had acquired a 36,000 hen egg production company four miles east of Plainview and was named the Flying “K” Egg Ranch. He was married on March 23, 1951 to Martha Sue Green at the First Baptist Church in Plainview. The ceremony was performed by Dr. A. Hope Owen, who was pastor of the church and later President of Wayland. In 1957 the Flying “K” Egg ranch was sold to the Ralston Purina Company and he started the Green Poultry and Egg Company, which he operated in Plainview until 1984 with the help his wife Sue. In 1984 he retired from the poultry and egg business and went to work at England Wholesale in Plainview. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Plainview from 1947 until his death. He was ordained as a Deacon in 1958 and taught a Sunday School class for young married couples for several years. Singing sacred music was one of his greatest joys. He was a member of the First Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir for 54 years and the Millennium Singers of the Plainview Senior Citizens Center for more than ten years. He loved attending conventions on southern gospel music in Texas and New Mexico, and was always happy to help any group singing gospel music at a local nursing home. Later in life he found great joy, comfort, and strength from recordings he had made while singing with various groups. He was proceeded in death by his wife Sue and his brother Jimmy William Green, who was killed in World War II. He is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law Jim and Zaphryn Green of Plainview and Steve and Judy Green of Waco; and one grandson, Aaron Green of Waco. Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church Building Fund, 205 W. Eighth, Plainview, TX 79072; Hale County Senior Citizens Center, 1107 Smyth, Plainview, TX 79072, or to a favorite charity. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, October 9, 2008 at Kornerstone Funeral Directors. Online condolences may be made at www.kornerstonefunerals.com.