Janet Green, age 80 of Watauga, SD died on Thursday, December 1, 2011 at the Western Horizons Care Center in Hettinger, ND.
Funeral Services will be a private family graveside service at the Valley Hill Cemetery on the Green Ranch north of Watauga, SD with Pastor Tottie Lenerville, officiating.

Casketbearers were her grandsons, Craig Harrison, Teddy Harrison, Wade Green, Daniel Green, Steven Carr, Jesse Glines, Ryan Glines, and Dillon Glines.

Janet was born on February 15, 1931 at Guthrie, Oklahom. She was the third child of Eslie and Gena Austin.

Janet married Melvin Green on March 28, 1948. They moved from Oklahoma to North Dakota in March of 1956. They ranched there and raised six children, Rorrie, Rebecca, Wanda, Wayne, Joyce, and Bonnie.

Janet is survived by her husband, Melvin, daughters and sons-in-law, Rorrie and Kirt Sabrosky of Killdeer, ND, Rebecca McGowan of Allentown, PA, Wanda and Lyn Canady of Perry OK, son and daughter-in-law, Wayne and Janet Green of Stanton, ND, daughters and sons-in-law, Joyce and Don Anderson of Tupelo, OK and Bonnie and Ken Nelson of Circle, MT; 17 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren, her sister, Marie Musgrove of Woodward, OK, sister-in-law, Bonita Stadler of Stillwater, OK and A.M. Green Jr. of Douglass, KS.

Janet was preceded in death by her parents, and two sisters, Juanita Meise and Lucille Frymire.