Funeral services for 90-year-old Wayne Green of Butterfield, Minnesota, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning, June 10, 2017, at the Alliance Missionary Church in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. The church is located at 809 5th Avenue.
Interment will be at 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, June 10, 2017, at Mountain Lake City Cemetery, located on 10th Street North at Midway Road.
Visitation will be at Sturm Funeral Home-Mountain Lake Chapel, on Friday, June 9, 2017, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The funeral home is located at 420 10th Street North. A second visitation will be held at the church the day of the funeral service from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Online condolences to the family may be sent to: www.sturmfh.com.
Sturm Funeral Home-Mountain Lake Chapel is handling the arrangements.
Wayne Ellis Green was born on April 15, 1927, in Selma Township, Cottonwood County, the son of Winfield and Gladys (Nichols) Green. He grew up on a farm and attended country school through eighth grade and then Mountain Lake High School, graduating in 1944. Wayne worked on the family farm for two years. He then attended Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota for one winter.
Returning home, he worked for Herbert Hoek. From 1949 to 1951, Wayne built a small house on the family farm.
On August 24, 1951, Wayne married Margaret June Wille at the Alliance Church in Mountain Lake. They lived on the family farm until 1956, when they moved to a farm in Adrian Township in Watonwan County. Wayne worked for Moore Manufacturing and Toro for several of years until they started a dairy farm. They operated a dairy farm for over 30 years.
Wayne and Margaret were blessed with four boys. A tornado destroyed their dairy barn in 1963. In the following years, they built a new barn, silos, a new house, machine shed and other buildings. They retired from dairying in April 1994. They continued farming until Wayne retired.
He enjoyed farming, welding and woodworking. Wayne served on the Butterfield-Odin Public School Board, Tri-Country Co-op Board and as an usher at the Alliance Church in Mountain Lake for 60+ years.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret Green of Butterfield; children, Larry (Cindy) Green of Butterfield, Ron (Terri) Green of Las Vegas, Nevada, Randy (Sharon) Green of Little Canada, Minnesota and Merlin (Robin) Green of San Diego, California; four grandchildren, Scott (Brittany) Green of St. Paul, Minnesota, Stephanie Green of Minneapolis and Kayley Green and Jamie Green, both of Las Vegas; sister, Glennys McDonald of Texas; brother, Robert (Muriel) Green of Los Angeles, California, sister-in-law, Darlene Green of Mountain Lake and brother-in-law, Alvin (Ardyce) Schmidt of St. James.
Preceding him in death were his parents; brother, Loren’ sister, Dorothy Schmidt and brother-in-law, Bob McDonald.