Mary Ellen Green

Mary Ellen Green

Jan. 21, 19356 - March 9, 2024

NORTHPORT, FL - Mary Ellen Green left this earth very peacefully at her home in Northport on March 9, 2024. She was eighty-eight years old. Mary was born in Ithaca, NY on January 21, 1936, the only child of Daniel and Frederica Clark.

She lived at 306 East Tompkins Street right through high school. She was a very good student and had a lot of friends. As a child, she loved cats and swinging on the swings at Stewart Park. She learned to drive a stick shift on her parents car.

She went to Cornell University where her father worked as Professor of Plant Physiology. Mary majored in French Literature. She met her future husband there, Dr. Alan E. Crawford, who was studying to become a Veterinarian.

She graduated on a Friday and got married two days later. Before they had children, Alan was a Horseback Riding Instructor at Forest Lake Camp, and Mary was the Camp Supply Clerk, driving a pickup truck to Glens Falls daily to pick up food and various items for the camp. It was during this time that she fell in love with Kelm Lake, as they lived at Kelm while working at the camp.

Alan and Mary had three children - Ellen, Jim and Dan - and they brought the children to Kelm for vacations very early on in their marriage. Mary loved the outdoors and became an expert in bird watching and identification.

After their divorce in 1972, Mary moved the family to Glens Falls, where she first worked as an aide at BOCES and was inspired to continue her education to become a Special Education Teacher. She did a great job as a single parent! The family continued to vacation at Kelm until 1977. She loved drum and bugle corps, and was very supportive of Jim and Dan when they joined the local corps in the late 70s (Jim in '77 and Dan in '79).

In 1980 she married William Green of South Glens Falls and they traveled to attend many drum corps shows to see her boys compete. Bill and Mary had many sailing and RV adventures, and they built a camp on Goodnow Flow in Newcomb, NY, which they throughly enjoyed.

Mary had a heart attack in 1995 and subsequently retired from teaching. Bill and Mary moved to Titusville, FL in 2001, and then again to Northport, FL in 2014 to be closer to Ellen.

Mary is survived by her husband, William; children: Ellen Bannin and her fiance, Rob O'Connell, Dan and his wife, Emily, and Jim and his wife, Brenda. She was pre-deceased by her son-in-law, Richard M. Bannin, Jr. Her grandchildren are: Penelope and Jack (Dan and Emily) and Corinn and Matthew (Jim and Brenda).

Mary was a very kind, considerate and loving wife and mother. She was very generous and loved her weekly Sunday meals with Ellen and Rob, and FaceTime visits with Jim and Dan. She was a very caring grandmother who took a keen interest in her grandchildren. Her presence in all of our lives will be sorely missed, and she will remain in our hearts forever.

Mary will be buried in the family plot in Trumansburg, NY later in the fall.