ANGIE GREENE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
The young woman named above died in the Value Jet crash, May 11, 1996. Yet, though she is not with us, her life and influence still live. Angie was born in Warren County, TN near McMinnville, March 29, 1965, to Howard and Alma Greene. Angie, the third of the Greene’s daughters grew up on the family farm, attended the local schools and on June 28, 1978, was baptized into Christ at Arlington where the family worshipped. In 1983 she graduated from Warren County Senior High School, then four years later received her bachelor’s degree from David Lipscomb University. That same year, 1987, she began to work for the State of Tennessee.
During the years she lived in Nashville, Angie attended the church at
Crieve Hall. Her devotion to Christ and her integrity was known,
not only to other saints in Middle Tennessee, but to her colleagues and
fellow workers with the State. For eight years she worked as a
trusted assistant of Governor Ned McWhorter.
In 1994 sorrow came to the family when Angie’s father, Howard, died
after a tragic fall from a ladder. He had served for more than
twenty years as an elder with the Arlington Church and had been known in
the area for more than fifty years as an outstanding song leader.
Two years later another tragedy struck the family when the Value Jet
(flight number 592) on which Angie was returning from Florida, crashed
in the Florida everglades. The only memento found of our
young sister was her Tennessee driver’s license. The date (May 11)
was doubly difficult for sister Greene as it was the day before Mother’s
Day. Yet, Angie’s legacy did not end with the plane crash in that
Florida swamp: for there is a building in South India named in her
honor, which serves as the residence and classroom building for the
Coimbatore Bible Institute for women. This school is unique in
that it gives two years of intensive training in the word of God to a
large group of Christian women in a third world nation. These
young sisters are trained to be good wives and mothers and to teach and
children.