Ann Marie Green

Ann Marie "Cookie" Green
With heavy hearts, we share the news of Ann Marie "Cookie" Green's passing on October 26, 2025, at the age of 88 in Brandon, FL. Born on August 15, 1937, in Gary, Indiana, to Ann and Bernard Joseph Halaschak, she received her nickname, Cookie, from the delivery physician who noted that she was "as sweet as a cookie." This name endured and truly described the kind, caring soul that she shared with so many throughout her altruistic life.
Cookie grew up in Gary, where she attended Columbus Grade School and Thomas A. Edison High School. In high school, she was a devoted cheerleader, the homecoming queen, and sang her way to the Indiana State Championship, where her rendition of Ave Maria won her the State Soprano Title. Her love of sports and music remained ever-present in her life.
After graduating from high school in 1955, she focused on her professional dream of becoming a pediatric nurse and attended nursing school at St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Gary. While there (1955-1958), she learned not only the clinical side of pediatric nursing, but the human, caring side too. She often shared that the nuns who taught her would declare that "caring for a child is 10% and the family, 90%". This teaching shaped the comprehensive care of the children and families that she looked after during her 4 decades of pediatric nursing.
Cookie relocated with her family to Tampa in the early 1970s, where she dedicated most of her professional career to working in the Pediatric Unit at Tampa General Hospital. Nurse Cookie - or Mamma Cookie to many - provided a unique, loving nature of care that embraced the families she tended to, from the celebration of healing to mourning the loss of a child. Cookie passionately shared her knowledge and principles with her work family and USF student nurses. Her dedication to both executing and teaching her thoughtful 360-degree view of child (and family) care secured a USF Nursing School Preceptor of the Year Award. An award that she dearly treasured.
What she cherished most, though, was her family. Her second husband, Earl Green, was a profound part of her life. Their love was enduringly inspirational. As a mother, Cookie - an incredibly devoted champion of the theory that children are not things to be molded but people to be unfolded - raised her five children as individual, significant souls, supported in what made each thoughtful in their convictions and stronger as a result. The subsequent, amplified love of her seven grandchildren fueled her later life and retirement years. Grandma Cookie attended baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball, cheerleading, and any other sport or activity that called for a seasoned cheerleader like her.
A cheerleader for all whom she knew and loved; Ann Marie "Cookie" Green has left a lasting influence on the world that was blessed to know her. She taught us the importance of caring for one another, being present in one another's time of need, and respecting the intrinsic relevance of the people and natural radiance that we encounter while living. Her love will live on in the hearts of many, and we are all better for it.
Anne Marie "Cookie" Green leaves behind her brother, Barnard (Carol) Halaschak; son Timothy (Mylene) Malloy and their children Morgan and Conor; son Michael Malloy (Alla Meleshenko); son Terrance "TJ" (Susie) Malloy and their children Sally and Kelly; daughter Erin Malloy and her children Hayley and Carson Guerry; and daughter Mollie Malloy (Anthony Campbell) and her child Mallory Graham. She joins her husband, Earl Green; mother, Ann Halaschak; and father, Bernard Halaschak in peace.
We will gather to honor and celebrate Ann Marie "Cookie" Green on Friday, November 7th, at Serenity Meadows Memorial Park, Funeral Home & Crematory, 6919 Providence Road, Riverview, FL 33578. Visitation begins at noon – 1:00 pm; service is 1:00 – 2:00 pm. Instead of flowers, please consider a donation in Cookie's memory to the TGH Children's Hospital Pediatric Trauma Fund - a gift that supports sick and injured children, just as Cookie did.
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