Mr. Robert Green Jr.

Robert Green, Jr. 94 of Fishers, and a former Bluffton resident, passed away at 1:00 a.m. Monday, May 26, 2014 at Community North Hospital in Indianapolis. Mr. Green was born on December 8, 1919 in Kingsland, Indiana to Robert and Mary (Ramsey) Green. He graduated from Lancaster High School in 1938. He started a career in Tool & Die School at General Electric where he worked until he enlisted into the Navy at the beginning of World War ll. He proudly served his country in the United States Navy from December of 1940 to 1945. He was stationed at Navy Pier before being transferred to Moffett Field, California before being sent overseas to Guadacanal. He returned to the states and was stationed at Olathe, Kansas until the end of the war. Mr. Green returned to Bluffton and worked as a driver for 32 years for Transport Motor Express, driving 4 million miles of accident free driving. Upon his retirement in 1980, He moved to Desert Hot Springs, California where he started his own business, California Sports, building golf clubs. Bob was a member of the Bluffton Masonic Lodge #145 of Bluffton where he was a Master Mason, along with being a member of the Scottish Rite Mason and Mizpah Shriner. On April 25, 1942 in Bluffton, Robert and Mary Louise (Hart) were married. She survives in Fishers along with children David (wife Carol) Green of Central City, Iowa, William “Dennis” (wife Kay) Green of Indianapolis, IN and Teresa (husband Gordon) Pusser of Santa Cruz, CA., along with eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. He is also survived by two sisters Ruth Ann Haneline of Bluffton and Evelyn Gaiser of Fort Walton Beach, FL. Mr. Green is preceded in death by sisters Sue Maddox and Marg Grouthaus and brothers Roger and George Green. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 31, 2014, at the Thoma/Rich, Lemler Funeral Home. Life Celebrant Jeff Lemler will officiate. Friends are invited to call on the family from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. prior to the service on Saturday. Burial will follow at Fairview Cemetery. Military Honors will honor Robert by the United States Navy and the American Legion Post #111 of Bluffton. Friends can send online condolences to the Green family at www.thomarich.com.

Mr. Robert Green Jr.

December 8, 1919 - May 26, 2014