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880 Hopmeadow Street
P.O. Box 335
Simsbury, CT 06070
Phone: 860-658-7613
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Obituary for Ethel Green (Turick)

Ethel  Green (Turick)
On Thursday, March 30th 2017 our Mother, Ethel Anne Green of Granby passed peacefully away just a few weeks shy of her 80th birthday. She was born on April 23,1937 to Ethel (Evonosky) and Albert Turick in the home of her Grandmother on East Hill Road in Canton. She grew up in Canton in the home her father Albert built at the top of East Hill Road. As a girl she loved roaming the pasture swimming in the 'deep hole" in back of her house and picking wild flowers. She loved the giant rock but most of all she loved the sunshine. Soon after she graduated High School she met our beloved father John Williams Green. She was shy but our father was not and before she knew it she had agreed to their first date, a driving lesson on Barn doors Hill Road. As fate would have it, our mother required several more dates before our dad was convinced she had mastered the art of successfully starting and stopping the car. The lessons continued and by the time she could shift gears without grinding the clutch they were hopelessly in love. He asked her to marry him, she accepted and on her twenty first birthday they eloped, they were married the next day in Maryland on April 24th and remained together until his death in 2000.

Prior to starting a family she worked planning school bus routes for the Simsbury Board of Education. After settling in Granby to raise her children she opened a day care where she cared for and nurtured many children over the years eventually becoming a foster mother.

How incredibly strong she was, she never gave up; she put her entire being into raising her children. Our mother loved Christmas she made it a magical time for her children. She loved to make wreaths and every year just after Thanksgiving she would lure us kids and our toboggan deep into the woods. Over the course of the next several hours with the energy of a drill sergeant, she would prompt us to gather anything green that she could put in a wreath . Once the toboggan was packed to ultimate capacity like the Grinch guiding the presents out of who ville we would drag that toboggan back to our grandmothers house. Once there our dad would spend the next hour and a half trying to fit half the forest us kids and the ring leader back in the car. Somehow he always did and once home she would sit on the kitchen floor for hours and hours and out of those greens she would make the most beautiful wreaths. She sold them every year to earn extra money for Christmas to buy presents looking back She gave us much more than presents, she gave us memories of a magical childhood filled with love and the spirit of Christmas. She gave us the anticipation of Christmas eve, the warmth and bond of being together for the holidays, the smell of party mix cooking but most of all she gave us love and Christmas mornings so wonderful that no matter how old we were we still felt little. She gave us the desire to pass that feeling and those memories on to our children and to our grandchildren. We were truly blessed to have such wonderful parents and such wonderful memories.

Our mother loved to take walks at Stanley Park, she loved flowers and she made the best homemade root beer and party mix in the world. She loved the sun, did not believe she needed sunscreen and loved taking sun bath's and working on her tan. She was a beautiful woman a wonderful mother and grandmother and will be missed by those she left behind. She was predeceased by her parents Albert and Ethel (Evonosky) Turick her husband John Williams Green and their infant son John Harry Green and most recently their daughter Melanie Anne Barton. She is survived by her brother Butchie Turick, her children Laura and her husband Derrick Platner of Simsbury, Jerry Green of Tennessee and Michael and his wife Heike Green of Southwick
Mass. She leaves 10 grandchildren Jessica, Evangeline, Ricky , Jerry John, Peter, Jackie, Cindy, Noah, Luke and Madison. She also leaves 5 great grandchildren Anthony, Skylar, Marc, Jack and Remington. There will be a memorial service to celebrate Ethel's life at Stanley Park, the park she so dearly loved later this spring.
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