Martha (Utterback) Green
Marriages
Byron Matthew Green - 1941
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 4A Death Notice - April 3, 2017
Martha Smith Green, 93, Grand Junction, died April 1, 2017, at HopeWest and Hospice Care Center. Services are planned at a later date. She was a nursery school teacher.She is survived by a daughter, Christy Whitney of Grand Junc-tion; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.Memorial contributions to HopeWest, 3090B N. 12th Street, Grand Junction 81506.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 7B Obituary - April 5, 2017
Martha Smith Utterback
Green died peacefully April 1,
2017, at the Hospice Care
Center in Grand Junction,
Colorado, at the age of 93.
She is survived by her
daughter, Christy Whitney
(Kent Borchard);
grandchildren, Melissa
Calkins (Brad), Ashley Whitney, and Chad Whitney (Amy) of
Denver, and Matthew Green and Lynn Green of Frankfort,
Kentucky; great-grandchildren, Akelia Calkins, and Cayden and
Grayson Whitney. She was preceded in death by her husband of
70 years, Bryon Matthew Green.
She was born October 29, 1923, in Frankfort, Kentucky, to
Robert Elliott Utterback and Vercil LeCompte Utterback. She
met her husband, Byron, during the time they both attended
Transylvania College in Lexington, Kentucky. They married in
1941. They lived in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois during the
years Byron worked for IBM. They retired to Frankfort,
Kentucky, until moving to Grand Junction recently. They
attended the First Christian Church in Frankfort faithfully and
volunteered for numerous activities there.
Martha was a talented musician and was a ballerina in high
school and college. She loved children and spent many years as
a Sunday school teacher and nursery school teacher. She was a
born leader and served as the chair of many volunteer
organizations, as well as serving as the first woman elder in the
First Presbyterian Church in Elmhurst, Illinois. She was beloved
to her family, particularly her great-grandchildren, Akelia,
Grayson, and Cayden.
Her life will be celebrated both in Grand Junction and
Frankfort in late spring.
The family would like to thank her care team at HopeWest and
appreciate the support she received at The Commons. Her last
weeks at the Hospice Care Center were filled with compassion,
as she enjoyed the pet therapy, musicians, and her friends at
Cups Club. A particular thank you to her volunteer for five
years, Dorothy, who brightened every day she visited her, and
whose friendship was treasured.
Memorial contributions would be appreciated to HopeWest,
3090B N 12th Street, Grand Junction, CO 81506, or the First
Christian Church in Frankfort, Kentucky.
