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Shirley Green
SHIRLEY GREEN
Monticello
Shirley A. Green, 79, of Monticello, died Wednesday, April 23, 2014, at the Ed and Joan Hemphill Hospice Unit in St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 25, at Kramer Funeral Home in Monticello, where a vigil service will be at 4 p.m. Visitation also will be from 10 to 10:45 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Monticello before the fu-neral Mass. A Mass of Christian Burial will be 11 a.m. Saturday, April 26, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Monticello, with burial in the church cemetery. Officiating will be the Rev. Paul Baldwin.
Shirley was born April 14, 1935, in Viola, Iowa, the daughter of Jonas and Bessie (Drumbarger) Hakes. She was a member of Sacred Heart Parish. Shirley and her sisters were raised in Viola, where they shared many fun times and fond memories for a lifetime. She married Claude Green on Nov. 25, 1965, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Stone City. In 1969, they moved from Cascade to their new home in Monticello, where they raised their daughter.
She and Claude loved to travel, especially to Nashville, Tenn., and out West.
Shirley was very proud of her family and loved all of the children for whom she babysat. She was especially proud of her granddaughters who have in recent years blessed her with her dogs, Chanel and Duke. She loved all animals.
Survivors include her daughter, Lisa (Dean) Stevens of Monticello; two granddaughters, Danielle and Nicole; special nieces, Tammy and Analecia Harms (Scott Christensen); a sister, LaCretia Graves of Cedar Rapids; brothers- and sisters-in-law, Lois Green of Dubuque, John (Marcella) Green and Charles (Mary) Green, both of Cascade, and Robert Offermann of Prairieburg; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Claude in 1998; two sisters, an infant sister and Margaret Jaeger; and in-laws, Louis Graves, Joseph Green, Mary Jo Offerman, Virginia (Vince) Kremer, Ted (Mildred) Green, Loras Green, Arnold Green, Oscar (Bernice) Green and Mary Estelle (Frank) Simon.
Online condolences may be left for the family at www.kramerfuneral.com.
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