Farrand Green Sr's Obituary
Farrand Green, Sr. was born on September 1st, 1950 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in Tacoma, Washington since the age of four. He attended McCarver Elementary and Junior High schools, Stadium High School (class of 1968) then spent a little time at Bates Technical College and Tacoma Community College. Even as a child Farrand wanted to earn money. He picked fruit in the Puyallup valley to make money for school clothes and worked at the Hilltop Grocery store K-Way to buy his first of many cars. In 1968, Farrand voluntarily joined the Marine Corp and went off to fight in the Vietnam War. This experience would affect him for the rest of his life.
Farrand drove truck for Westcoast Grocery/Supervalu for around 30 years. After he retired, he followed his dream of becoming an owner/operator. Within a few years he discovered that not all that glitters is gold so he sold his truck and settled into retirement.
Farrand Green is preceded in death by his mother Genevieve Hilliard, his aunt and uncle that raised him Bevelyn and George Baker, his biological father Walter Wright, and his two brothers Julius James (Kandi) and Ronald Hilliard.
He is survived by his oldest son Toryono Lamonte and his wonderful wife Andrea, their two sons Sean Tremayne and Stephen Josiah and two daughters Zoe Wei and Hannah Liming, daughter Khali Meroe {Buranda Michelle (Brandy)} and her husband who gave Farrand Green thirteen grandchildren and one great-grandson, his youngest son Zeek and his amazing wife Stacey who have two children, a daughter Maizy Apple and a son Langston Union.
Farrand Green also has eight surviving siblings: Patricia Sebastian (Albert), Diane Wright, Joycelyn Knight (Anthony), Audwin Green, Finous Hilliard, Jr (Shelia), Reginald Hilliard, Sr. (Kim), Terrence Hilliard (Vantrelle), his close cousin Jacqueline West, five ex-wives and five former step-children: Gloria Price (Tory), Patty Green (Zeek and Khali), Pat Green (Marques Hairston and Nicole Douglas), Melannie Denise Cunningham (Tifannie Gibson), and Trina Green (Maurice and Terrell Little).
Dementia is a cruel and devastating disease. The last two years of Farrand’s life were undoubtedly the hardest he was ever forced to endure. The family would like to thank the staff of The Cottages at Edgewood for all of the attention and comfort Farrand received over the last year and a half. We also thank his niece Lisa Rankin Faircloth for doing all she could to make sure he never forgot how special he was to her. We would especially like to thank Patty Green for spending nearly every single day with him during his time at The Cottages. Her sincere and relentless care made him feel loved until his last breath.
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