Lt. Colonel L. C. Greene (Ret.) was born in Jackson, Alabama on Thursday, December 8, 1932, to William Washington Greene and Mildred Hope Pharr Greene. L. C. was their third son. He had three brothers, Charles, William, and Gerald.
During his childhood, L. C. spent his summers with his beloved Godmother, Lillian Claire Sullivan (Punko) in Brewton, AL, and in later years enjoyed being there with his adopted sister, Carolyn, with whom he had an extremely close bond. His family moved to Montgomery, AL and L. C. attended and graduated from Sidney Lanier High School in the Spring of 1950. He joined the Alabama National Guard in 1951. In 1952 he began work at American Optical Company. He also began dating Martha Helen Parker, whom he married on August 28, 1953. In 1954, L. C. and Martha Helen transferred with American Optical to Gadsden, AL. In 1955, they had their first child, daughter Pamela Gayle. In 1958, American Optical transferred L. C. back to Montgomery. In 1961, L. C. and Helen had their second child, son Charles Jeffrey. In 1964, L. C. was working for Coates and Jones Optical Company and the family built a home and moved to Prattville, AL. In 1966, L. C. and Helen completed their family with the birth of their son, Mark Steven.
In 1969, L. C. went to work for J. A. Weiss and Sons Optical Company, traveling to large cities and small towns across Alabama, Florida, and Georgia to sell optical supplies and equipment to Opticians, Optometrists, and Ophthalmologists. In 1981, he began working at Berry Optical in Montgomery until his retirement in 2008. He continued working part time at Berry Optical until 2018. L. C. made many professional and personal friends throughout his sixty-six-year career in the optical business.
In his time away from work and the National Guard drills and summer camps, he enjoyed refereeing high school football for the Alabama High School Athletic Association. He refereed high school football throughout the state for over forty years. In his full retirement, L. C. was a lifelong learner and attended many classes at Auburn University at Montgomery through the Senior Guest Program which he thoroughly enjoyed.
He became a member of Frazer Methodist Church in Montgomery, AL in 2013.
Daddy went home to be with Jesus at ninety years old on March 11, 2023. L. C. was preceded in death by his parents, brothers, godmother, and his life-long, loving companion and wife of his youth, Martha Helen, with whom he is now reunited in Heaven.
He is survived by his children Pamela, Charles, Mark, and Erica; his grandchildren Cameron, Kaitlyn, and William; his adopted sister, Carolyn Merchant; his sisters-in-law Lucille Hall, Dottie Parker, and Norma Parker Busby; his beloved cousin Rosemary (Ray) Bing; nephews Bobby (Kathy) Hall and Wesley (Katie) Parker; nieces Teresa (John) Braxton, Jill (Randy) Merriman, Paula (Kevin) Banks, BJ (Tim) Harms, Beth (Dave) Taylor and Emily (Micheal) Wooten, and many other extended family, church family, and friends that he loved dearly.
On March 19, 2023, Leak-Memory in Montgomery, AL will conduct a friends and family visitation at 1:00 pm, an hour before the celebration of life chapel service at 2:00 pm, followed by a graveside service at Greenwood Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be sons Charles and Mark Greene, grandsons Cameron Cloud and William Greene, and friends William Stone and Joe Rollan, Jr.
If any are led to donate to St. Jude Children’s Hospital and Research in Daddy’s honor, it would be lovingly appreciated.
John 14:1-3 Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God: believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Daddy would want all to remember to smile because Jesus loves you and so did he.
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