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Philanthropist, grocer Lillie Mae Green dies at 99

Lillie Mae Green, who died March 22, 2018, and her husband, Frank Green, gave a $4 million gift from the estate of their son, Ronnie, for what became the Ronnie Green Heart Center at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. Photo courtesy Little & Davenport Funeral Home.

Lillie Mae Green — Lillie Mae Green, who died March 22, 2018, and her husband, Frank Green, gave a $4 million gift from the estate of their son, Ronnie, for what became the Ronnie Green Heart Center at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. Photo courtesy Little & Davenport Funeral Home.

Lillie Mae Green, who with her husband, Frank, opened Green’s Grocery in 1950 in Gainesville, has died at age 99.