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Melinda Marie Green
© Cheyenne Star
07 May 2009
Submitted by: Wanda Purcell



Melinda Marie Green was born June 30, 1966 at the Air Force academy, in Colorado to Glenn E. and Wanda G. Moore Green and departed her body on April 27, 2009 at Sayre, Oklahoma at almost 43 years old.
Melinda spent the first three years of her life in Colorado Springs where her Air Force Dad was stationed. She had an older sister and brother, and later a younger brother was adopted into the family. In 1969, when she was three, she lived with her family in Cheyenne, Oklahoma, while her dad was in the Arctic.
After a year, the family moved to Biloxi, Mississippi, where Melinda completed kindergarten through second grade. During this time she accepted Christ as her personal Savior.
Being an "Air Force Brat", she attended various schools in different states where she excelled academically and was involved in many school activities. She completed the 3rd grade in Bryan, Texas, 4th through 7th in Yucaipa, California, and 8th through 12th in Blanchard, Oklahoma where she graduated in 1984.
Her interests were Band, Cheerleading, Drama, Choir and Basketball. She played both clarinet and flute in the band, but her favorite school activity was cheerleading.
She was also very active in her Church.
Melinda attended college and graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, Oklahoma in 1993 with a degree in Business Management. She has worked management jobs in Oklahoma City, Cheyenne and Sayre.
In 1999, she moved to Sayre, Oklahoma and began work at Northfork Correctional Facility as a Corrections Officer and then was moved to the business office in date Processing. She became disabled in 2004 due to chronic pancreatitis and severe brittle diabetes. Her health continually deteriorated until she went to be with her Lord on April 27, 2009.
She was preceded in death by all of her grandparents, especially her favorite, Grandma Moore, and one nephew, Roderick Land.
She is survived by her parents, Glenn and Wanda Green of Cheyenne; one sister, Nila Land and husband Robert of Cheyenne; two brothers, Travis Green and wife Andrea of Round Rock, Texas; and Randy Green of Coyle, Oklahoma; five nieces, Mary, Hannah, and Gracen Green of Round Rock, Texas; and Kelsi and Whitley Land of Cheyenne; two nephews, Joshua and Michael Land of Cheyenne; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Memorial services were held Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. at Cheyenne First Baptist Churcfh officiated by Rev. Jeff Hurlbut, with a private interment in the Berlin Cemetery, Berlin, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.


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