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Green, James Lincoln Saturday, February 27, 2021
James Green
James Lincoln Green, 92, of Chattanooga, peacefully departed this life on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 in a local hospital.
He was born in Columbia, Tn., on Sept. 16, 1928. Affectionately known as “Preacher”, he was the seventh of seven children born to the late Arlelia Jones Greene and Abe L. Greene. He was educated in the Maury County Public School System and attended College Hill Elementary, Junior and Senior High Schools thru the 11th grade. As a part of the boys’ assignment in the high school Shop class beginning in the 11th grade, they helped to build the Carver Smith High School, completed in 1949. James was in the first class to graduate from Carver Smith in 1950. He also was a member of both the football and basketball teams at both schools.