SHAWNEE, Kan. (ABP) — Douglas Green, husband of Baptist theologian and Central Baptist Theological Seminary President Molly Marshall, died after a long illness late May 23 at his home in Shawnee, Kan., according to a seminary press release. He was 85.
Douglas Green
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A family physician, Green graduated in 1952 from the Baylor Medical College in Texas and practiced medicine over a 46-year career in Cushing, Okla., and Louisville, Ky. He also served in the United States Coast Guard, 1943-1946, earning four Bronze Stars and the Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon.
While in Louisville he met Marshall, who earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary there. The two lifelong Baptists wed in 1981. Marshall served as pastor of a rural Kentucky church and then joined Southern’s theology faculty in 1984, eventually becoming associate dean of the seminary’s theology school.
Green followed his wife to Kansas when Marshall accepted a teaching position at Central in 1995, after Southern's new fundamentalist administration forced her to resign. In 2004, Central named Marshall president — making her the first woman in the United States to lead an accredited Baptist theological seminary.
Green had three adult children from his first marriage, from which he was widowed when he married Marshall.
A visitation for Green at 1 p.m., followed by a funeral service at 2:30 p.m., are scheduled for May 28 at Prairie Baptist Church in Prairie Village, Kan., where he was a member.
Before his death, Green requested that memorials be made to Central Baptist Theological Seminary, 6601 Monticello Road, Shawnee, KS 66226-3513.
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