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Where Gayland fulfilled a life-long dream by
retiring here with his Emagene for 17 years while he fiddled away in the
evenings
in the town's square where local country music reigned.
Gayland Green, a
retired Mt. Pulaski farmer and renowned Central Illinois fiddler, passed away on
Jan. 28, 2004, in his home here in Mt. Pulaski, the scene of his second
retirement location. Along with his successful farming and music abilities,
Gayland leaves his equally talented wife, Emagene Veech Green. Emagene compiled and
wrote the famous
Mt.
Pulaski "Green" book:
And
She Held Forth Her Hand,
published in 1961. It went into a
2nd printing in 1997. This treatise incorporates the history and genealogy
of
Mt. Pulaski and the surrounding vicinity.
Appreciation letter from the Gayland Green Family
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Gayland
Green as reported in:
 Lincoln
Daily News
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Gayland
Green, 85, of Mount Pulaski died Wednesday
(Jan. 28, 2004) at 1:41 a.m. at his home.
Visitation
was from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral
Home in Mount Pulaski.
His
funeral was at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the First Christian z
Church of
Mount Pulaski, with John Robertson officiating.
Burial
was in the Mount Pulaski Cemetery.
Mr.
Green was a retired farmer.
He
was born Jan. 7, 1919, in Watson to Samuel Maple and
Leona Elizabeth
Crosier Green. He married Emagene Veech
in Bowling Green, Mo., on Aug. 14, 1940.
Survivors
are his wife, of Mount Pulaski; two daughters,
Brenda (and Ted) Carthel
of Denton, Texas, and Jacqueline
(and Bob) Kapper of Illiopolis; eight
grandchildren; eight
great-grandchildren; three sisters, Mildred
Kilhoffer of
Cowden, Marilyn Janusweski of Springfield and Wanda
Etherton of Buffalo; and a son-in-law, Don Maxheimer of
Mount Pulaski.
He
was preceded in death by one daughter, Sharon Kay
Maxheimer, and three
sisters.
He
was a member of Mount Pulaski Christian Church and
the Illinois State Fiddlers Association.
In lieu of
flowers, memorials may be made to the building
fund at Mount Pulaski
Christian Church.
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