Martin Edward Green

Martin was born in Houston, TX on August 18, 1940, to Martin Jasper and Mary Dell Green. Martin attended Sam Houston High School before attaining a BBA at Sam Houston State in Huntsville. He was a loan officer at a local credit union for almost 40 years.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and his sister and brother in law, Mary Ann and Jack Seniff, and is survived by his wife of 64 years, JoAnn Green, his daughter and son-in-law, Kim and Michael Faber, his son Martin Jr, his grandchildren Rick Smith, JilliAnn and Jeremy Wilson, Skylar and Larry Wright, Logan Faber, and Kash Faber, and great grandchildren Rylan Smith, Josephine Wilson, Indigo and Phoenix Wright, and Liam Faber. He also leaves behind many precious nieces and nephews.

Martin liked and respected every person he met, therefore everyone he met liked and respected him. He was known for his kind and gentle demeanor and his dry sense of humor. When he spoke, people wondered what funny thing he would say.

As a kid, his grandparents on his mother’s side moved from Saginaw to Houston into the house next door to him. Every weekend his grandpa took him to town to the movies. Those were precious memories for him, like he helped make for his children and grandchildren. His mother would tell stories about her mother’s dog. They could send it to the store with a list. The storekeeper would bag everything up and the dog would carry the bag home in its teeth. It is no wonder Martin always loved dogs. The house wasn’t a home without one.

He was raised by loving parents who set an amazing example of how marriage was supposed to be. His dad would sit at the beauty shop when his mother got her hair done, run to the store if they were having company over 7 plus times if she needed him to do so and never said a cross word to her.

When he was only 14 years old he saw the love of his life walking out of her junior high school. That love lasted 70 years- they were married for 64 years.

He moved his family to the Conroe area in 1969, because he was to be the manager of the Conroe office of the teachers’ credit union. In the almost 40 years he worked there, customers always asked for him because they knew he would try to help them in any way he could.

To move to Conroe, they relocated a 50-year-old house from Houston to acreage where they had to drill a well, get plumbing and electric poles installed and all kinds of other hard work. It wasn’t so much a labor of love, but it was cheap, at least on the surface until they found out it was a money pit. He didn’t have great timing so he never got rich. Prior to moving, he bought a 24-hour gas station, which was a terrible investment. Later he bought a car wash where the city proceeded to tear up the road in front of it. All these things were side hustles on top of a full-time job. Later he partnered with his brother-in-law selling cars. He would pull over to look at vehicles on sale everywhere the family went. He mowed yards after work at the credit union almost until he retired. He always worked hard to provide for his family. Providing was not just for the necessities; both kids were in all sorts of activities and vacations were a must.

When JoAnn and Martin moved to town they met some of the friends they still have today. Some of them call themselves the Flamingos. They joined a couples’ bridge club, danced with Conroe Country Cousins, Martin got added to a poker-playing group and joined the Lions Club; JoAnn became a Lioness. He absolutely loved all the activities and people in Lions Club. In the early years, they had a party line phone- most people in Cut N Shoot didn’t have a phone. That’s how they met lifelong friends, Betty and John McAviney, who had kids the same age as theirs.

He and JoAnn were inseparable. There were no weekends with the guys for him or girls’ trips for her, the 2 of them had the most fun when they were together.

He had many interests. He would never say No to anything fun. He had FOMO (Fear of missing out) before it was a thing. They traveled to 23 foreign countries, went on over a dozen cruises and did a family road trip every summer when the kids were at home all over the US and later started taking the grandkids. He was an avid gardener, loving his garden and plants. The Lowe’s garden crew and all the employees at local nurseries knew him by name.

He also loved being on the water, most of the time owning a boat and a camper. They loved to go to the Frio River and Garner Park, which is where the kids and grandkids learned to dance the 2-step and JoAnn and Martin got engaged long before that.

A Visitation for Martin will be held Friday, November 7, 2025 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Metcalf Funeral Directors, 1801 East White Oak Terrace, Conroe, TX. A Celebration of Life will occur Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM at Metcal with a reception to follow. Graveside Service and Interment will occur Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM at Garden Park Cemetery, 801 Teas Road, Conroe, TX.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.metcalffuneraldirectors.com for the Green family.