I meet Ceora Green in late 80s when it was at a Regional meeting of React Volunteers in Erie as a Regional coordinator . She hosted the meeting and lived in nearby Wattsburg
REACT - Radio Emergency Activated Communications Teams
Where a nationwide collection of individuals who Monitored CB - Citizens Band Emergency Channel 9 in 70s thru early 90s before Cell phones and provided motorists with Directions and emergency assistance. Plus provided communications during emergency to communities and community events
Ceora during that time was President of the Erie Team and had saved numerous motorists lives during severe snow storms and she was also a member of and Vice President of Unit 1 Communications for Long Haul Truckers
All this while working as a traveling nurse taking care of many elderly patients in there home some very destitute or neglected by their children. Thou she started out as a Hair Dresser and still practiced it.
Couple times when I came to visit and discuss team issues with her she cut my hair. which she loved doing since I was blessed with nice thick hair .
She was also an excellent cook and homesteader even raised her own beef cow at one time.
She had to neither husband ever contributed their pays towards the family. Drinking or gambling it away.
http://www.thecorryjournal.com/obituaries/article_637c4c8c-56b7-11ec-a4c9-9f770a8eea1a.html
Ceora and 2 sisters grew up near by Union City where they worked hard in their parents Grocery Store and gas station on Pa 97 which was in a converted Serbian Social club known as " The bucket of Blood Club " for the many violent fights there . now a private residence
Her dad sunk an old Railroad tank Car in ground which he sold gas from and on weekends they where only station open till 11PM that side of county and cars would be lined up both directions getting gas.
So it was just natural Ceora would get involved with a group like REACT.
Ceora married a Mr. Reynolds who I meet one time and she did not talk much about and had a Son David and Daughter Melissa , who she gave everything to to make sure they where feed and clothed and raised properly and they turned around and shit on her and they became estranged from her.
She would go onto marry Jim Green who was also a total Piece of Shit who left her dying from Stage 4 Breast Cancer which she miraculously survived after having surgery but no chemo .
But again she would be shit on by a Robert Carnrike who first came to help her then ripped her off.
I did what I could for her but being 3 hours away I only got there couple times a year.
Ceora was always a giving person and got to meet and worked with many politicians including Tom Ridge with here charity work even knew John F, Kennedy's Wife. and she even received a Volunteers award from President Jimmy Carter
Her good works would also be her undoing. While assisting Truckers from a Friends CB radio shop she realized Truckers where transporting drugs thru Erie County Thru the shop and after reporting it to authority's things got dicey and she had to leave REACT behind as several members where tied with it.along with some higher level React Leaders in criminal wrong doings . She was so worried for her safety when a regional React meeting was held in Punxatawney Pa. I brought along Noel McCarthy with me a Former Wrestler Jobber for WWWF and Deputy Constable known by his Nick Name Grizzly to protect her . Those who threatened her all ended up paying for their misdeeds Karma can be a real bitch,
Even with everything she had gone thru she stayed true to her faith and she meet a congregation several years ago United Pentecostal in Wattsburg where she meet the Rev.William Binganham and the 2 became friends and both ministered to the various Nursing facility's thru out Erie and this was their Down Fall.
They both Contracted Covid 19 Pneumonia and died within hours of each passing.
I knew something was wrong when i could not reach her to wish her Happy thanks Giving and was getting ready to drive up and check on her when Neighbor called who is her executor.
She will be greatly missed and so many people have no idea all she did and lives she saved.
But in the long run Ceora got the Last Laugh.
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