Richard Allen “Dick” Green
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Memorial services for Richard Allen “Dick” Green, 74, Lawrence, will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, October 4, 2013 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Private family inurnment will take place at Memorial Park Mausoleum. He passed away on September 6, 2013 at Brandon Woods in Lawrence, KS.
He was born June 26, 1939 in Canton, Illinois the son of Van Arvard and Alene Marguerite (Fuller) Green.
Dick graduated from Pratt High School and attended Pratt Junior College. In 1962 he graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in Biological Science with a minor in Chemistry.
He played football for The University of Kansas from 1959-1961, and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. He was President of The K Club at KU from 1990-1991. Kansas Football was his passion, he lived for football Saturdays every fall.
After graduating from KU, Dick taught Biology and coached football, basketball and track at Hays High School. He spent much of his life’s work as a pharmaceutical representative.
Richard lived life fully and passionately. He was an amazing poet. He was also the life of the party with funny jokes, a great smile, and was a magician on the grill. He loved to host his friends and family with amazing food and wine. We know he is now in a perfect and beautiful place, but we will certainly miss his good natured wit, his killer beef tenderloins, but mostly his unending love for his family and for all people.
He is survived by his two daughters, Elizabeth Anne ‘Betsy’ Coons of Lawrence, KS and Sarah Kathleen ‘Katie’ Green of St. Joseph, MO; son-in-laws, Scott T.R. Coons and Robert Dunlap; two grandsons, Kolby S. Coons, Los Angeles, CA and Jacob Coons, Lawrence, KS; and his sister, Joyce Green-Brady, and her husband Larry Brady, of Kansas City.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials in his name to either the American Parkinson’s Foundation or The University of Kansas Williams Fund and may be sent in care of the mortuary.
We thank you all for your friendship and for your thoughts and prayers.
Betsy&Katie,
How very sorry I am about your dad.
I remember his wonderful sense of humor and caring personality.
Dick will be missed by his family and friends.
My sympathy and love to you.
Suz Brown
Betsy&Katie,
How very sorry I am about your dad.
I remember his wonderful sense of humor and caring personality.
Dick will be missed by his family and friends.
My sympathy and love to you.
Suz Brown
Joyce,
I was sorry to hear about your brother. I am thinking of you.
Phyllis Huffman LaRue
Betsy and Katie and Joyce,
Although our families have scattered around the country, I never lost track of Dick’s condition. Joyce was so good in letting my Mom know, and she would tell me. So I know what a hard time it was for him, and for you guys too.
All I can say is that I am thinking about you 3, hoping you will cope well and become adjusted to Dick now being at peace.
Love to you all,
Steve Farber
Joyce, so sorry to hear about your brother. Herb Hoss sent me this information this evening. Please know that our love and prayers are with you and your family. He’s in a better place, where there are no illnesses. Love to you,
Janet Swinson
From the fourth grade on through many once-in-a-life-time adventures. A dear friend and you will be missed. Remember what it was we last said. God speed.
I’m so sorry to hear of Dick’s passing. What a wonderful man he was. I had the pleasure of meeting Dick at Brandon Woods several years ago. My father was also a resident at BW. Every time I went to visit my Dad, I would see Dick and chat with him. He was always smiling, always had a kind word and a good story to tell. I will remember him fondly. My sincere condolences to you!
Joyce, I am sorry to hear about your brother. He was Special to many younger men. Condolences to you.
Betsy, Katie & Families,
Though we had a rather brief time to get to know your father, Dick, or you, we thank you for the privilege to have been even a small part of his last days. Now know that our support is available to you as you engage the days, weeks and months ahead without him. We are just a call away with a listening ear and caring heart.
You will remain in our thoughts as in so many ways you will continue saying goodbye to your beloved father as the days pass.
Peace to you,
Terry Frizzell and the Heartland Hospice Team
Katie Betsy and sister Joyce,what a great brother-in-law Dick was to me, all those yrs. Always finding something to make everyone laugh with his sence of humor, he may be gone but never forgotten.
Sorry for your loss. Please find comfort in these few words, knowing that the God of the Bible Jehovah will help you to get through this. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those in any sort of tribulation through the comfort with which we ourselves are being comforted by God”. 2 Cor.1:3-4
You’ll be surely missed my “brother”, my cousin, my friend.
Our thoughts are with you. Dick and I were friends for a long time. I will miss him. Tell your Mom hello for Karon and I.
To the family : my sincere condolences.
There is no greater pain than the death of a loved one.
Sometimes it seems almost more than a person can bear.
Jehovah God helps us with this in His Word,
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and death will be no more (REV 21;3.4) Jehovah also
shows His love for us through the ransom sacrifice
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Then the hope of seeing our loved ones again
on this earth, transformed into a paradise. The Bible tells us
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Please read:
(Genesis 1:26,27; John 5: 28,29; Psalms 37:11,22,29).
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I am sorry about Dick’s passing. I knew Dick thru the drug store and by playing racquet ball. I always enjoyed the “locker room” banter with him. And I know he enjoyed that with me and many other guys we played with. I had one business dealing with Dick in which I gained a tremendous respect for him. I know the last years have been hard for him. You are in my thoughts and prayers. mark coberly
I am sorry about Dick’s passing. I knew Dick thru the drug store and by playing racquet ball. I always enjoyed the “locker room” banter with him. And I know he enjoyed that with me and many other guys we played with. I had one business dealing with Dick in which I gained a tremendous respect for him. I know the last years have been hard for him. You are in my thoughts and prayers. mark coberly
I am saddened to learn of Dick’s passing. I was in the choir at Chapel Hill Fellowship with him in Wichita. His humor and love for KU have been missed since his move to Lawrence. I was fortunate to have known him and to have called him Brother in Christ. God Bless your family in your loss.
Mark
I worked at Brandon Woods for several years in IL, cleaning and caring for Mr. Green. He always put a smile on my face! Such a nice man! Your family is in my thoughts and prayers!
MY LOVE AND MY SYMPATHY ARE WITH YOU BETSY AND KATIE. DICK IS NOW WELL.
My deepest sympathies to Richard’s family and especially his sister, Joyce. Richard came and stayed with my Mother and Dad (Evelyn and Irving Deuel) in 2001. We had a great visit with he and friend Alice. I will always treasure this time and will never forget his wonderful since of humor and quick wit. Rest in Peace dear cousin. Shirley Deuel Miller
Joyce, Betsy, and Katie, Please accept my sympathies at the loss of your brother and father, Dick. He sure was a fun guy! We so enjoyed his last visit to Iowa when he stayed with my Mom, Evelyn, in the family home of our grandparents. A great time was had by all! Rest in peace dear cousin.
I am so sorry to hear about Dick’s passing. He was a good friend to both me and my wife Patty. Dick had a personal relationship with the Lord which gave him both strength and purpose in his life. He will be dearly missed. Our sympathy and thoughts to his family.
Bob Skahan
I worked with Dick at Bwoods for 2 years and I worked his 300 hall every day 6 am to 2 pm. i got know him very well and he was an amazing person. He was so funny and never a dull moment. So sorry to hear about his passing. my thoughts and prayers are with his family at this time.
Betsy and Katie, how sorry I am to learn of your father’s passing. Your mother was my pledge daughter at K-State and remains a wonderful friend. Although time has passed and relationships altered, memories hold tight and bond us all together. The sunshine of your father’s smile comforts us all. Arms around, Judith McAlister Cranmer Kelly
Betsy and Katie, our family sends you our deepest sympathy as you mourn the loss of your dad. I knew Dick from Hutch when he worked with my dad at KWHK radio: He was such a treasure, and achiever! I was very young and so excited when the famous KU tight-end added his signature to my team autographed Chiefs football. We kept in touch while I lived in Wichita talking KU, football, church, & our new baby (now 9). His sense of humor was such a joy. I pray the wonderful and tender memories you carry of your dad will override your sadness, espeically knowing he is now with God.
We were very sorry to hear of Dick’s passing. He was my pledge brother at KU and we had some contact in the 80’s. His obit said it all. He was fun loving great to be around. Rest in peace my friend
Richard and I were friends since the 3rd grade when his family moved to Pratt and were our neighbors. Our family outings and vacations together were always welcome. Dick was like a brother to me and I will miss him very much.
Richard was a classmate of mine. He was the life of a party and what good class reunions we have had. My sympathy to the family.
My belated condolences to the family. Dick was a great guy, who had a tough go of it in his last years. May he rest in peace. Ed Eubank
Dick Green and I were friends from the time we both moved to Pratt Kansas in the late ’40’s. He was a happy and gregarious soul, and always ready to pull a prank. He expected pranks back too, and that is what we got, right up until the day we graduated Pratt High School in 1957. Growing up, Dick Green was a gangly and somewhat awkward guy but, in about his junior year, he grew significantly taller, and became quite well muscled and athletic, which marked him as a star on our teams. as track team mates we ran on the same relay teams, and often worked out together. It was during those precious moments that I sensed he was going to make his mark in sports, and this he did. One of his greatest – perhaps his greatest- ambitions was to play football at the University of Kansas. This ultimately did happen, of course, and he was especially proud of his contribution to a record setting KU team that went undefeated and won the Bluebonnet Bowl.
Dick’s love for friends and family was exceptional. He seldom missed meeting old friends when they were visiting, or attending the funeral of friends and parents of friends.
I am saddened by his loss, but ever grateful that I knew him and shared boyhood experiences with this great man. God Speed, Dick Green.
magnificent pics tammy….