GREENE, Charles Harrison

The Prescott Courier, Prescott, Arizona Friday, June 2, 1974 Charles Harrison Greene, 63, died Friday, May 31 at good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix following a short illness. Mr. Greene was the youngest son of the legendary Col. William Cornell Greene, founder of the Cananea Cattle and Copper Company of Cananea, Sonora, Mexico who built a copper and cattle empire at the turn-of-the-century in Sonora and southern Arizona. Charles Harrison Greene was born on October 2, 1910 in Los Angeles, Calif. and attended private schools there until going to Loyola University in Los Angeles. He also attended Notre Dame University and the University of Alabama where he was affiliated with Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. He was a member of the California Club, the Phoenix Country Club, the Mountain Oyster Club of Tucson, the Old Pueblo Club of Tucson. He was an honorary member of Cum Laude Society, a member of the Arizona Academy and the Aspen Academy of Aspen, Colo. Mr. Green was a board member of the Orme School and was president of that board for a number of years. He was a former Prescott College Board member, a member of Yavapai County Cattle Growers Association, Arizona Cattle Growers Association. Mr. Green worked in the Los Angeles office of the Canadian C&C Company until assuming management of the ORO Ranch Baca Float # 5, located 50 miles northwest of Prescott in 1959. He operated the ranch until Sept. 1973 when the current ambassador to France, John Irwin bought the ORO. The Greene holdings in Cananea were asked for it by the Mexican government in 1959 leaving him to finally settle the matter in court years later. Mr. Greene was considered resident citizen of both Prescott and Phoenix. Charles Harrison Greene is survived by his widow Margardthe, of Phoenix; one daughter, Michael Teres McNeff, of Scottsdale; two brothers, Curt of Reno, Nev. and Frank of Sausalito, Calif. and two granddaughters. Rosary will be held at Sacred Heart Church, 7:30 p.m. on Monday. The Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated by Msgr. Robert Donahaoe, of the Phoenix Diocese in the Sacred Heart Church at 11 a.m. on Tuesday. Private entombment will follow. Friends may call at the Ruffner Funeral Home between 4 and 6:30 p.m. on Monday