Rev. Floyd Green, Sr., 96, of Big Spring, died Sunday, January 18, 2015 at his residence. He was born February 28, 1918 to Herman and Willie L. Green in Bastrop, Texas. Funeral services will be held 10:00 AM, Friday, January 23, 2015 at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel. Interment will follow at Trinity Memorial Park. The family will receive friends 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM, Thursday, January 22, 2015 at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. He married Corine Shields in Big Spring. From this union 12 children were born. Later after the passing of his first wife, he married Leola Williams. He worked for the railroad, highway department, was a janitor at Lakeview School and had his own landscaping business. He accepted his call to the Ministry in 1950. He pastored several churches under the AME Church….including Snyder, Stamford, Hamlin, Roby, Sweetwater, Slaton and Brownwood. He loved the Lord and served him faithfully. He was a Mason, a member of the Webb-Spring Lions Club, the NAACP, also a member of the Wayside Harmonizer's Quartet Singers. He was a praying man. He could pray like no other. A hobby he loved was fishing. He is survived by four sons, Rev. Floyd Green, Jr. and wife, Sandra, Rev. James Green and wife, Debra, Rev. Richard Green and wife, Percilla and Lonnie Green: four daughters, Mary Watson, Rosie Green, Claudette Forward and husband, Cleve and Evelyn Wilkins. nineteen grandchildren, twenty-four great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild and a host of nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death, by his parents: his wife, Corine, and second wife, Leola: four children, Ruby Anding, Bobby Green, Ethyl Wakefield and David Green: a grandchild, Rudolph Anding; four brothers, Irmer Green, J.W. Green, Walter Green and L.V. Green: three sisters, Beatrice Washington, Mozelle Blueford and Willie L. Young. Arrangements under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences may be made at: www.npwelch.com ,
