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Elizabeth Greene, 77, district leader; candidate for Assembly in 1990
Elizabeth Ivory Greene, former Republican district leader and lifelong Village resident, died Jan. 30 at St. Vincent’s Hospital at the age of 77.
Hospitalized for two weeks for arterial surgery, she died of complications, said her son, Edgar Greene.
She was the daughter of Elizabeth Post Price Ivory and Percy Van Eman Ivory, an artist whose home and studio was in the Village. She went to elementary school at City and Country Day School on W. 12th St. and to Washington Irving High School. She then went to Bennington College in Vermont.
Elizabeth Ivory married James Benno Greene at the Salmagundi Club in 1953 and raised her family in the Village. Her husband died in 1968.
Active in the Republican Party, she served as district leader more than 20 years ago and ran unsuccessfully in 1990 as the Republican candidate to fill William Passannante’s Assembly seat. She worked at the city Board of Elections from 1991 until she retired last year.
In addition to her son Edgar, of the Village, another son, James Benno Greene III, of Texas, and a daughter, Elizabeth Tylawsky, of Connecticut, also survive.
A memorial service will be held at the Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave. from 3 p.m.-5 p.m. on Feb. 25.

Elizabeth Ivory Greene, American Real estate company official. Recipient scholarship Bennington (Vermont) College, 1949-1952.
Greene, Elizabeth Ivory was born on January 17, 1929 in New York City. Daughter of Percy Van Eman Ivory and Elizabeth (Schofield) Post Price.
Bachelor, Bennington College, 1952.
Sculptor, Hansen Lamps, New York City, 1952-1957; real estate agent, Ely-Cruikshank Company. New York City, 1968-1970; principal, Greene Reality Ltd., New York City, since 1970; principal, Apocalyptic Holdings Ltd., New York City, since 1972.
Board of directors Business Improvement District Greenwich Village, New York City. Trustee City & County School, New York City. Member Republican National Committee, 1996.

Member Small Property Owners Action Network (founder, president since 1983), National Center Neighborhood Enterprise, Village Visiting Neighbors (board dirs.1987-1989), Daughters of the American Revolution (John Jay chapter), Greenwich Village Chamber of Commerce (board directors), Association Village Homeowners, New York Mycological Society.
Avocation: gardening.
Married James Benno Greene Junior (deceased).
Children: Elizabeth Tylawsky, James Benno III, Edgar Charles Ivory.

Birth	17 Jan 1929	New York, New York
Census (family)-shared	13 Apr 1930	(Percy Van Eman Ivory and Elizabeth Schofield Post Price) Manhattan, New York, New York
Census (family)-shared	9 Apr 1940	(Percy Van Eman Ivory and Elizabeth Schofield Post Price) Manhattan, New York, New York
Marriage	19 Jun 1954	New York, New York - James Benno Greene Jr.
Residence	15 Oct 2005	New York, New York
Death	30 Jan 2006	New York, New York
Daughter of the American Revolution

Spouse	James Benno Greene Jr. (1927 - 1968)
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Living

Father	Percy Van Eman Ivory (1883 - 1960)
Mother	Elizabeth Schofield Post Price (1886 - 1968)

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