Virginia Alma Green

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SUMTER - Virginia Alma Green, 104, of 507 W. Calhoun St in, Sumter, died Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, at her home.

Born July 8, 1910, in Turbeville, she was a daughter of the late Daniel Luther and Alma Broadway Green.

Miss Green was a graduate of Turbeville High School and Winthrop College and received a master's of education degree in 1948 from the University of South Carolina. She taught school for 42 years in South Carolina, having taught in Allendale, Kingstree, Florence, Columbia and Sumter, from which she retired.

She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church of Sumter, the Trinity Fellowship Sunday School Class and the UMW. She was also a member of the Sumter Art Association and the Sumter Gallery of Art. She was a former member of the Sumter Artist Guild, the Gardenmakers Garden Club, and a number of educational organizations.

Survivors include her niecesĀ and nephews, Janie Kaye Gaskin Young of Easley, D. Lowell Gaskin Jr. and his wife, Doris, of Rock Hill, Charles Coggin Allen Jr. and his wife, Gail, of Spartanburg, and Myrna Marie Allen Whitner and her husband, Richard Church Whitner, of Alexandria, Virginia; three grandnephews; seven grandnieces; and 11 great-grandnieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by two sisters, Mrs. Charles C. (Myrtle Green) Allen Sr. and Mrs. D.L. (Janie Green) Gaskin Sr.; and a baby brother, D.L. Green Jr.

Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 26, 2014, at Trinity United Methodist Church with the Rev. Dr. Steve Holler and the Rev. Phil Jones officiating. Burial will be in Pine Grove United Methodist Church cemetery in Turbeville.

Nephews will serve as pallbearers

The family will receive friends from 10-11 a.m. before the service at Trinity United Methodist Church and other times at the home.

Memorials may be made to Trinity United Methodist Church, 226 W. Liberty St., Sumter, SC 29150.

Online condolences may be left for the family atĀ www.sumterfunerals.com.

Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St. in Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386.