Barbara Jo Green

Barbara Jo Green was born in El Dorado, AR, on September 30, 1947 and left this physical life on August 24, 2025, into the presence of her Best Friend, the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. She would share the gospel of Christ whenever she had the chance. She attended elementary and middle school in Birmingham, AL and graduated high school in Kenner, LA. Barbara Jo then attended and graduated from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA with a Bachelor’s Degree in Dietetics. She managed college food services for campuses in Lawton, Stillwater, Tulsa, OK and Las Vegas, NV. Upon moving to Texas, she attended Texas Woman’s University to receive her Master’s Degree in Science Education. She was a long-time Public School Educator teaching Middle School and High School Science, Physics and Chemistry. She loved it when students pursued science or engineering related fields as their chosen careers. For Barbara Jo, it was all about the students. Upon retiring from teaching, she then volunteered to tutor students who were struggling. When she found that there were no educators serving on the Forney ISD school Board where we live, she ran and served for nine years on the Board. She loved her church, First Baptist Church Forney, where she served sharing the Gospel, working as a decision time counselor as well as working with the Hygiene Kit Ministry. This ministry was especially important to Barbara Jo as it supplied underprivileged students within the Forney ISD with basic hygiene supplies, enabling each student to feel better about themselves. Additionally, she served in many other areas during her life from teaching to singing and supporting wherever and whenever she could. Barbara Jo is preceded in death by her father, Charles Jade Somervell, mother, Charlene Werna Mathews Somervell, brother, Stephen Owen Somervell and 4 miscarriages, each of which Barbara Jo was able to meet for the first time upon her arrival in Heaven. She is survived by her second best friend and husband of 42 and a half years, Charles E “Charlie” Green; her children: Leonard Ted “Trey” Fowler (Kyra), Charles Jason Green, Melissa Hinman, Salley Shtylla (Ervin), Stephen James “Jim” Green (Catherine), and Ashley Rebekah Rideout (David); grandchildren: Leslie, Johnathon, Jonathan, Riley, Julia Ann, Cale, Ben, Allie, Evie, Jace, Eli, Cole, Luke, and Leiah, one great granddaughter, Eva, and her sister, Margery Somervell Cramton. She is also survived by nieces, nephews, cousins, other extended family, church family, and many others, each of whom loved her dearly. She has definitely left a lasting memory on many. Funeral service will be at 11:00am, Friday, August 29, 2025 at First Baptist Church of Forney in The Forum. Her family will receive friends beginning at 10:00am to service time. Interment will be at 2:00pm at Restland Memorial Park in Dallas. For those wishing and in honor of Barbara Jo's love for helping students, donations may be made to the FBC Forney Hygiene Kit Ministry at https://fbcforney.org/give/

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Barbara Jo Green

September 30, 1947 - August 24, 2025