Christina "Chris" Green

Christina “Chris” Owens Green’s glorious sunrise was January 14, 1948 in Toccoa, Stephens County, GA. She was a proud graduate of the Whitman Street High School class of 1964.  She was employed by Atlanta Life Insurance Company and later was employed with Coats & Clark and worked there for 20 plus years.  Chris was the first one to host a class reunion at Whitman Street High School.  The reunion was such a success that the Whitman Street Alumni Association was formed and she was the president for 25 plus years.  She continued working daily on updating the addresses of classmates and former alumni of Whitman Street High School each year.  For 42 years money generated from the annual alumni ball gave scholarships to black students going to college. 

Chris was preceded in death by her loving parents, Edna Mae Cody Owens and John Paul Owens, her grandparents, Doyle and Annie Lee McCarter Oglesby, Beulah Roseman Owens & Lewis K. Owens, her beloved brothers, Bradford Owens and Anthony Dexter Owens along with her dearly loved grandson, Joel Keshon Green. 

She leaves to cherish her memories, her children: Adrian O. Ford, Tonya Owens and India Nikeisha Green and her only son LaFarr Owens.   God's Daughter; Hoppe H. (Devlin) McCoy, granddaughters, Adaysha Green, Aalaijah Green, Chrishauna Owens, Challen Owens, Nikelsha (Kamichi Fleming), Trinity Owens, Kiya Owens, Hennryetta Harbin, Ky'embo McCoy. One Great Granddaughter, Camille Allen. Three grandsons, Nigel Green, Isaiah “Teran” Owens, Kariym McCoy. 2 Good sons, Walter Johnson, Ni'Darrein Oglesby. An adopted Daughter, Tracy Fruster. 2 honorary sisters, Linda H. Drinkard & Mozell Copeland. She is also survived by one aunt, Dorothy O. Fruster.