Tamara Green

GREEN, Ms. Tamara Lynn - Age 46, passed away Saturday, May 22, 2010 at Genesys Health Park. Family hour 11:45 a.m. Friday, May 28, 2010 at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, 2115 W. Coldwater Rd., with funeral service commencing at 12:30 p.m., Rev. Michael Pettigrew officiating. Interment Lovedale Memorial Cemetery, G-5175 E. Bristol Rd. Friends and pallbearers will assemble at the church 11:45 a.m. Ms. Green will lie in state in the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, 906 W. Flint Park Blvd., and may be viewed from 1-8 p.m. Thursday. Ms. Tamara Lynn Green was born September 14, 1963 to the union of Charles and Gwendolyn Green. She graduated from Flint Northwestern High School in 1981 and attended Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio. Tamara was employed with the Flint Board of Education and Mass Transportation Authority prior to becoming disabled. Tammy was baptized at an early age by Reverend R.R.Gordon of the St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church. Her love of music began when she became one of the original members of the Angel Choir of St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church. She grew to be a pianist and organist under the tutelage of Cinda Anderson and this passion evolved when she became co-founder and organizer in part, of the St. Paul Baptist Church Male Choir. A psalmist with the Great Lakes District Choir, she was asked often to lend her melodious soprano voice to different venues throughout the city. Tamara’s spirit remained strong and undaunted throughout her life challenges and she was an inspiration to all who came into her presence. Ms. Tamara L. “Tammy” Green is survived by: mother, Gwendolyn Green; three sisters, Evelyn Beverly, Michele Green, and Sonia (Kelvin) MacFadden; eight nieces and nephews, Monique Green, April Green, Ashley Wilson, Dewayne (Tiffany) Lyles, Derrick (Shirley Lewis) Lyles, and Tyrone Green, all of Flint; William L. Stewart, Jr. of Cedar Rapids, IA, and Shelley (Lawrence) Madison of Cordova, TN; two aunts, Geneve (Oscar) Dosty of Stockton, CA, Estella Brewer of Hugo, OK; a host of other relatives; and special friends, Arletha ‘Lisa’ Chaney, Edna Stribling, and Shelia Wells. Ms. Green was preceded in death by her father, Deacon Charles Green. Special thanks to Pastor Michael Pettigrew and the St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, the Greater Galilee Baptist Church, the Muscular Sclerosis Society, and Shirley Lewis, a righteously indignant warrior who stood in the gap for Tamara the last two weeks of her life.

Tamara Green

September 14, 1963 - May 22, 2010