David Green

David Adam Green, a gifted musician who served in the European and Pacific theatres during World War II as an Army combat engineer and retired as a captain in the USAR, died Sunday (July 12) in Cincinnati just weeks after he visited war memorials in Washington, D.C., with the Honor Flight for veterans. He was 89.
Born in Neoga, Ill. on Dec. 10, 1925, he was the son of Adam and Mary Green. He attended John Marshall High School in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, with an economics and general business major in 1948.
He enlisted in the Army in June 1943 after his first semester and was sent to the University of Kentucky for specialized engineering training. He then received basic infantry, Ranger and advanced engineering training at several Army bases before being sent to Codford, England. He landed in France in April 1945 and was stationed in Föhren, Germany, at the end of the war in Europe.
He was on a ship bound for the Philippines and was near Pearl Harbor when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. He was a radio operator in Manila before returning to the United States to continue his college education while serving in the Army Reserve. He completed 23 years of military service in 1966, retiring as commander of a heavy weapons company based in Hamilton, Ohio.
He began his musical training with private study in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1937. He resumed his studies after the war, and worked as a pianist, organist and choir director for Methodist, Lutheran and Presbyterian churches for almost half a century. He was the pianist and organist for Miami Whitewater United Methodist Church in Harrison, Ohio, through 2014. Mr. Green composed and recorded liturgical and popular music throughout his life, even while with the Army in Germany and the Philippines.
He was a popular bandleader during and after his college years. His dance band, the Key Notes, was well known in the Cincinnati area for 25 years.
He worked as a merchandise manager for Sears Roebuck & Co. for 31 years, continued in sales and marketing for several companies, and worked for 14 years as a safety and training director for Ohio Valley Vulcanizing Co., in Cincinnati and Tip Top Industrial Services in Hamilton, Ohio.
His first wife, Jean A. Green, the mother of his children, predeceased him. His second marriage, to Grace Flynn, of Cincinnati, endured until her death in 2013.
He is survived by daughters Barbara Ashdown, Knoxville, Tenn., and Gloria Williams, Pinckney, Mich.; son David Allen Green, Jersey City, N.J; a granddaughter and two great-grandsons.
At the time of his death he was living at Bayley Place in the Delhi Hills area of Cincinnati. On May 23, Mr. Green was one of the oldest veterans aboard the Honor Flight that left from Dayton, Ohio, for a day in Washington, D.C., where his son joined him.
A funeral service with military honors will be held at Miami Whitewater United Methodist Church in Harrison, Ohio, at 1 p.m. on Aug. 1. In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be sent to the church, 9700 Dry Fork Road, 45030.

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Posted by Marti Gardner on July 28, 2015 (19:30)
One of my very favorite residents, sweet, kind and always smiling. I miss him every day that I work, it was such an honor and pleasure to be one of his aides.

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