Emily Louise Green

Sharon, VT - Emily Louise Green, 87, died peacefully in the early morning hours of Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at her son’s home in White River Junction, VT. Born on April 26, 1938, in Woodstock, VT, Emily and her siblings were raised by their father, Harold Buckman, and their beloved stepmother, Brice. Emily spent her early years in Woodstock, later moving to South Royalton, where she graduated from South Royalton High School. She was proud of her tenure as a cheerleader.

In 1960, Emily married her husband, Maxwell Guy Green, Sr., with whom she shared many years of marriage. She joyfully raised two sons, Maxwell G. Green, Jr. and Bruce Green, I. Together with her husband, they built a home on the family property in Sharon, VT, land that had been in the Green family for generations and remained deeply important to her throughout her life. Emily spent many years employed as a loom operator at the Bridgewater Woolen Mill and went on to work at the Veterans Hospital in White River Junction, Vermont, as a dietary technician. She retired from the VA after 25 years of service.

Known to her family affectionately as Mamie, Emily was an avid card player and had a strong affinity for BINGO, daubing her way across the Upper Valley. Anyone who knew her would swear she was born with a deck of cards in her hand. She gladly taught her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren how to play games and affectionately name-called whenever anyone got the upper hand. Mamie loved baking and was famous for her divinity, peanut butter fudge, pecan cups, and whoopie pies. She loved to crochet and watched The Game Show network religiously.

The matriarch, Mamie, prided herself on caring for her family. She loved to travel to visit them during milestones like the birth of her granddaughter, Jessie, in Germany, Jessie’s high school graduation in Hawaii, and her great-grandson Cody’s birth in Texas, as well as going on a cruise with “Big Max” and going on vacation with “Brud” and “Kat” to Costa Rica. She was fiercely independent and determined. Never one to sit still, Mamie took great pride in maintaining the family property well into her eighties.

Emily was predeceased by her husband, Maxwell, in 2004 and their beloved daughter-in-law, Ann Green, in 2022. She is survived by her sons, Maxwell G. Green, Jr, of White River Junction, Bruce L. Green I, and his wife Kathy Green of Tunbridge, VT, five grandchildren, Bruce Green II, Katie Green, Jessie Giffin and her husband Don, Jamie Green, and Heather Tufts, and nine great-grandchildren, Donald Champney, Cody Church, Calleigh Champney, Mackenzie Green, Dominic Hutchins, Riley Green, Leigha Champney, Lilliana Morrill, and Emily Morrill. She was never a fan of animals but loved her granddaughter Jamie’s rescue pitbull, Pecan.

Knight Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Condolences may be expressed in an online guestbook found at www.knightfuneralhomes.com.