Grace Green

Grace Green [née: Gottfried] was born in Brooklyn on March 8, 1924. She graduated from Brooklyn College in the middle of World War II. Like many others, she contributed to the war effort by going to upstate New York to pick fruits and vegetables. As the war raged, in 1942, she was a hostess at a USO dance at the 92nd street YMCA where she met the love of her life, Phil Green. They were married in 1943. Grace and Phil welcomed their only child while living in Greenwich Village. A few years later, they moved to Los Angeles, where Grace became a school teacher for the next thirty-five years. Her specialty was reading and she taught in South Central, East LA, and ended her career at Castle Heights Elementary School. Grace was active in the sisterhood at Leo Baeck Temple. She was a volunteer for the National Council of Jewish Women. She was an avid tennis player and devoted film buff. She is survived by her son, Richard Adam Green, her daughter-in-law, Eliza Day-Green, and her grandson, Maxwell Green.