Brother Rick hugs his infant son Allan with a thoughtfully tender and fatherly expression in 1971. Brother Tom is shown next to the bedroom window of the basement room where I slept as a high school student, with our pear tree to the right. For many years, the tree bore a bushels of pears annually, but recently stopped providing much late Summer fruit, as if it were getting ready to fold. Tom and I were both photographed hanging from the limbs at 1036 Murray Court in 1971, like samples from the Green family tree : it was tempting to climb because of the many fine pears in the branches. Typically we used a ladder, of course. Tom in Tree at 1036 Murray Court. Future Zanzibar Hotel specialist. Oh, Mama, Can This Really Be the End...To Be Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again. Mom died in Tucson on Feb.28, 2005. I saw About Schmidt starring Jack Nicholson just before I got the news from Rick in Arizona. The 1036 Murray Court home became the cradle of Greenwood Research, located at the end of a long drive pointed due West capped by a circular drive resembling a "stone hinge", and reminding me of the spine of one of my books. The neighbors put stones around the edge of the Hinge, conscious of its Stonehenge-like property of pointing directly at the setting Sun during the March 21st Spring Equinox. (The real Stonehenge centrally views its heelstone at the position of the rising sun as seen on the longest day of the year.) I note that the wing-robe of Orion, resembling an equals sign inside the arc of the Winter Crescent, is visible at both Equinoxes. At the 1036 Murray Court Stonehenge I worked out my view of the universe, imaged the Sun during a total eclipse, attempted to measure the distance to the Sun with a homemade apparatus by the method of Aristarchus, and bound hundreds of my books in science and engineering for distribution to libraries worldwide. Later I found out that the first fairly decent measurements of the distance to the Sun were made by Vasco da Gamma in the late 15th century, using the parallax between measurements made in England and at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. In my senior year in High School in 1967 playwright Andy Brown cast me as "Stonehenge" in his play Dinny and the Witches. I firmly decided to get into science and engineering in the first place in 1971, when I was flying across the Atlantic Ocean to Bonn, Germany for a year in school there. Looking down from the plane, I could see it's shadow inside a ring of rainbow light, a glory, which reminds me now of the Wing-Robe of Orion inside it's Winter Crescent of stars. This train is bound for glory, this train... Obitutary - Ruth Jane Green TUCSON, ARIZONA - Ruth Jane Green, 81, born July 20, 1923, died February 28, 2005. Wichita Memorial Service, 10:30 AM Thursday, March 10, 2005, Old Mission Mortuary, 3424 E. 21st Street, Wichita, in the Mission Chapel Mausoleum with its colorful stain glass windows. Ruth is survived by 4 sons; James A. III, Richard R., David A., and Thomas R. Green, and 4 grandchildren Dyan, Alan, Benjamin and Josephine Green. Ruth was born Born in Claremore, Oklahoma to Harold and Golda Mayfield, and graduated from Wichita High School East and later from The University of Colorado at Boulder with distinction in business administration. She worked as a real estate secretarial officer for Continental Real Estate and later Century 21 in Wichita, Kansas. Ruth and James A. Green Jr. married on March 10, 1948. She was a member of the Kansas Quilting Guild, and produced many fine quilts. In addition, she traveled extensively worldwide and frequently visited her far flung sons. After retirement she worked as a real estate loan officer. Ruth's ashes will be placed beside those of her husband James A. Green Jr. (1920-1983). One of my earliest memories is of Mom reading me a children's story about a little train chugging up a hill. When it learned to say "I think I can, I think I can", the little train could make it. Read Tom Green's Eulogy for his mother Ruth Green. Read Jim Green's Remembrances and Reflections on Ruth Green and his Father. Ruth Jane Green's Memorial Service at Old Mission Mortuary The official Wichita Eagle Obituary of Ruth Jane Green Funeral Etiquette | Great Memorial Services | Funeral Services by Religion | Bible Gateway | Bible Model Wedding and Funeral Services | National Museum of Funeral History | The Funeral Product Fantasy Coffins | Tips for Writing a Eulogy | Writing a Eulogy - 5 tips | Shakespeare's Eulogies Eulogies | Bottom 50 Eulogies | A Eulogy for Steven Edward Gilbert | Famous & Historic Eulogies Memorial Websites | Remembrances & Celebrations | The Epitaph Browser | Last Words Browser Recent Old Mission Eulogy/Epitaphs | Sociology of Death & Dying | MedLine on Death & Dying Funeral Services of President Nixon: Funeral Orations | Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust... Good Funeral: The Redeemed Body | Presbyterian Burial