Patricia Ann Cozby Green's Obituary
Patricia Ann Cozby Green was born in Oklahoma City on September 7, 1930 and transitioned to heaven on January 30, 2019. Her parents, Oscar Spencer and Jimmie D Cozby, raised their family of three, including her older brother Billy Cozby and her younger sister Elizabeth Chandler, in oil field communities in Texas and Oklahoma and in Dallas, Texas.Patricia met her soul mate, Walter Green, at Cliff Temple Baptist Church, and they married on June 6, 1953. They raised their two daughters, Gayle and Barbara, in Dallas and Richardson, TX and were lovingly married for 47 years until his death in 2000.Patricia graduated from Sunset High School as salutatorian followed by a degree in business at SMU. She began teaching business skills classes at SMU while still an undergraduate. While the girls were young, she taught evening classes at SMU, after a full day as mother. When the family moved to Richardson, she joined the staff at Richardson High School teaching typing and business math. After completing a master’s degree in counseling at North Texas State (UNT), she was beloved as a counselor at RHS for many years.Patricia was loving. She passionately loved her parents, her siblings, her husband, her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, her extended family and her many friends. Most of all, she loved her Savior, Jesus Christ.Patricia was generous. She was generous with her resources, giving to her family and church and many charitable organizations with an open heart. She was generous with her time, volunteering with behind the scenes tasks as well as taking leadership roles in many church, community and professional organizations. However, when her family needed her help, she dropped everything to be there.Patricia was creative and had a delightful sense of humor. She used her talents to write, direct and act in many skits for family, church, community and professional events. Always looking for new ways to engage and challenge her high school students, she created activities such as typing baseball. Her Sunday School class devotionals were known for her use of wacky costumes and props while communicating deep truths.Patricia was remarkable as not only the life of the party at every gathering but also often the one who instigated and organized the gathering. Her daughters saw this at an early age, from unique birthday parties to directing an evening of skits and songs performed by neighborhood children on the front porch stage to an audience of parents.Patricia was a friend. Deeply devoted to her lifelong friends from Sunset High School, Cliff Temple Baptist youth group, SMU, Lakewood Baptist, Heights Baptist and the Highland Springs retirement community, she sought opportunities to maintain those friendships.Patricia was loved. Her children and grandchildren considered her a role model. As her family grew, she embraced those who joined the family by marriage and in turn was loved by each of them. Her relationships with friends and family were rich, deep and lasting.She was greeted in heaven by her parents, her brother, her husband Walter, and her granddaughter Beth. She leaves behind her daughters and their husbands, Gayle and Roger Barron, Barbara and Sam Wilson, her grandchildren Laura Barron, Melissa Barron, Jon and Christin Wilson, Katie and Daniel Lairmore, her great-grandchildren, Derek and Brendan, her sister and husband, Elizabeth and Jerry Chandler, an extended family and a large group of friends who loved her dearly.Family will receive friends at Restland Funeral Home on Sunday, February 3, from 2 – 4 pm. A celebration of her life will take place in the chapel at Heights Baptist Church in Richardson, Texas on Monday, February 4, at 1:00 p
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