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GREENWOOD, ADELINE 1916 to 2008 Adeline Elizabeth Greenwood, mother, grandmother and teacher, died peacefully on February 28, in San Diego, California, of heart failure. Born in 1916, she was 92,
A native of Oklahoma, Mrs. Greenwood grew up in the Krigbaum pioneer farming family of Kiowa County. She and her siblings helped to cultivate wheat, cotton, sorghum and alfalfa, before and after school. She had the special chore of churning butter on Saturdays at her parent's Kash 'n Karry grocery store in Gotebo, Oklahoma, while watching cowboys and Kiowa Indians come into town for provisions.
She especially enjoyed riding her horse 'Black Beauty' to school. Her parents moved the family to Joliet, Illinois, while keeping the Hobart and Roosevelt farms. After her parents passed away, she managed the three farms finally selling them to her cousin Clarence Krigbaum in the 1980's.
Mrs. Greenwood attended Joliet Township High School and the University of Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, with a major in Zoology.
She met her husband of 68 years there, Lt. Colonel Robert C. Greenwood, M.D. She enjoyed being a U.S. Army wife and mother, as Dr. Greenwood served in the Army Air Corps as the Medical Flight Surgeon in Brady, Texas, and in Kunming, China during World War II as a medical officer. He flew over the Burma Road and was featured in a National Geographic article about a B-29 rescue mission into central China. With another physician, he assisted Sister Antonia Guerrieri, M.D., at the Lady of Maryknoll Clinic in Changhua, Taiwan. On his return to home in 1945, Adeline presented him with a check totaling his Army pay, to send him to school to become a neurosurgeon.
During the war and afterwards, she taught social studies and coached the girl's basketball team at Joliet-Township High and then at Monee High School to earn a living.
In 1949, Dr. Greenwood established the first U.S. Army Neurosurgery Corps. On discharge from the U.S. Army at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, they moved to San Diego where he set up practice here and in Imperial Valley as one of the area's first neurosurgeons. Mrs. Greenwood taught English and Mathematics at Woodrow Wilson Jr. High School, Memorial Jr. High School and Roosevelt Jr. High School.
She created the first Shakespeare program in conjunction with the Old Globe Theatre's annual Shakespeare Festival. Mrs. Greenwood often volunteered with the Old Globe. She also served as president of the San Diego Pony and Colt Leagues. She continued throughout her life to apply the great lessons of pioneering learned from her childhood both to her students and her children.
Mrs. Greenwood is survived by her son, Allen R, Greenwood (Barbara), her daughter, Betty J. Houbion (John), and her granddaughter, Raney E. Houbion Troeckler (Josh), and her nieces, Sylvia Isaacson Dupre (Barry) and Lynora Isaacson Simms Jr. (Al) and nephew, Wayne Clifford Isaacson (Karen), and their families.
She will be interred following cremation with her husband at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego. The family would appreciate donations in lieu of flowers to be sent to the San Diego Hospice Association.
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