3/16/2024 0 Comments Teddy greeneAfter returning from Vermont he worked for Ralston Purina Grain Company in Steep Falls, was an artificial insemination farm technician for several years, truck driver with George Anderson and Sons in Sebago, had his own firewood business, and drove school bus for the Sebago Elementary School and later was the school custodian. As a young teen Ted started his work life at Ben Hardy’s garage in East Sebago selling hand cut block ice and pumping gas. They were married on Januin Norway, Maine.After graduating from the University, he started working as herdsman at Gordonna Farm in Brandon, Vermont, later moving back to his home farm in Sebago. While showing his Guernsey’s at Fryeburg Fair he met his future wife Loretta, who was also a 4-H’er, from South Paris. Ted was a guest at the White House and was gifted a Blue Spruce tree from First Lady, Ladybird Johnson, that adorned the front lawn of the family farm up until 2018. While in 4-H he traveled to many conventions including National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. He started 4-H at the age of nine and spent many years raising and showing his Corriedale sheep and Guernsey cattle at Cumberland and Fryeburg Fairs as well as Eastern States Exposition. He then went on to graduate from the University of Maine Orono School of Agriculture. He grew up on the family farm at Mac’s Corner in Sebago, attending Sebago schools and graduating from Potter Academy at Mud City. He was born in Portland, Maine on Json of Dwight B. SEBAGO – At the age of 73, Theodore “Ted” Greene passed away unexpectedly on Monday, December 23, 2019.
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