26 Jan 1922 – 20 Jul 2003
Wife of Orme Harold Greene
EVANSTON – Funeral services for Zelda Greene, 81, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 24, at Crandall Funeral Home in Evanston. Interment will follow in Fort Bridger Cemetery.
She died July 20, 2003, following a battle with pneumonia.
Born Jan. 26, 1922, in Mountain View, she was the premature daughter of Abe and Clare Davis; and, despite the lack of special medical care, survived and thrived.
On Feb. 18, 1943, she married Orme Greene. He died in an industrial accident in 1953, leaving her with two young children.
She was the first librarian in the Mountain View branch library and worked at the local movie theater. Before her husband’s death, the couple trapped beaver, worked on the ranch, skidded logs, and built a log home.
In later years, she worked at the post office in Mountain View and at the telephone company. She operated an answering service for Bridger Valley Electric until 1999 and finally retired at age 77.
She loved nature’s beauty and her yard was home to hundreds of birds. She and her son, Robert John “Bob” Greene, collected and dried every variety of flower in southwest Wyoming and shared a love for discovering the history of the state. They worked on the family genealogy together and enjoyed each other’s company until his death in 1999.
She loved to travel around Wyoming and northern Utah and visited her daughter several times in Alaska until she was unable to meet the demands of long-distance air travel.
Her health began to fail in February; her sister and Uinta County Home Health Care then cared for her full-time as long as possible.
Survivors include her daughter, Mary Elaine “Meg” of Fairbanks, Alaska; sister, Elaine Phillips of Evanston; brother, Jack Davis of Mountain View; several nieces and nephews; and 12 grand-nieces and grand-nephews.
In addition to her beloved husband and son, she was preceded in death by her parents; and four siblings, Sidney, Helen, James and Bobby Davis.
-Published in the Star Tribune, Casper, Wyoming, July 22, 2003
Fort Bridger Cemetery, Fort Bridger, Wyoming
