Maryann Greene

Maryann Greene, sixty-eight of Fort Collins Colorado, beloved wife & mother unexpectedly gained her angel wings March 19, 2026.

A Celebration of Life for Maryann will take place on June 26th, 2026, at 3 p.m., in the East Auditorium of the Timberline Church located at 2908 S Timberline, Fort Collins, Colorado.

She was born Maryann Thompson to Prudyann 'Ann' (McClun) Thompson and William H. (Bill) Thompson on October 24, 1957 in Cheyenne WY. Her father, Bill had served in the USAF for nine years and her birth was his reason to honorably discharge from the service after years of touring the world. Bill wanted to pursue a more settled life in Wyoming through work with the Highway Patrol, and later the Wyoming Highway Department to be close to Ann to raise Maryann. Maryann's mother, Ann, worked in secretarial duties at KFBC Radio in Cheyenne, and later at the Wyoming Game & Fish Department. Although Maryann was the only child of Bill and Ann, she was surrounded by her older cousins on the maternal side (the McNallys) who might as well have been siblings to her, it would be an understatement to say her cousins had a profound impact on her upbringing. The McNallys were the best bigger cousins she could have, they stuck up for her through thick and thin, no bullies could get the better of her with the McNallys around. In Cheyenne she had a wonderful childhood with the benefit of her maternal grandparents close by. Her grandfather, William E. McClun was a navy veteran of WWI who ran the Cheyenne dry clean laundry, and her grandmother, Hazel McClun was a tailor and seamstress. The grandparents brought the maternal side of Maryann's family to Denver from Lincoln Nebraska during WWII and later moved north settling in Cheyenne.

As a little girl, Maryann quickly earned the nickname of “The Jellybean Queen” for her affinity to the sweet colorful confection dispensed from the machines she found in gas stations and roadside maintenance shops. She was not without her bouts of being a troublemaker, while in Johnson Jr. High in Cheyenne, her biology class was supposed to kill and dissect their pet frogs they had raised from tadpoles. Maryann promptly smuggled her frog off school grounds and released it in Crow Creek. The principal was not amused and contacted her father, who was unfazed by the reproach and defended Maryann's actions. Her father (Bill) was not ashamed of raising a daughter who showed such compassion towards animals. In 1968, tragedy struck when Maryann's cousin Edward McNally died in Vietnam, his death would impact her as anyone losing a big brother. In early 1970, opportunity in Colorado beckoned for the family in the form of Eastman Kodak Company when ground broke the prior year on a facility in Windsor. For the first two years, her dad made the commute between Cheyenne and Windsor on US-85 in a little red Datsun 510 station wagon through snowstorms, hail, and sleet. Then in 1972,  Kodak hired her mother and the whole family moved from Cheyenne into a charming 1920s Craftsman house at 5th & Locust streets in Windsor. The family was close to work and Maryann became a Windsor Wizard and excelled in her elective classes learning French. In 1973, the family would make a road trip to California where her dad would revisit many of his old stateside stomping' grounds in the service while she would see San Francisco in its hippie heyday and the Jefferson Airplane mansion and be inspired by music and art. This inspiration weighed on her mind as high school graduation approached. Maryann was ambitious, she considered going to the Denver School of Art with the aim of fashion design, as she wanted to make clothes for Led Zeppelin. Her parents suggested she come try an internship and work opportunities at Kodak for her first year after graduation. Following her high school graduation in 1976, she discovered she had an impressive talent for working with computers at Kodak, and this line of work stuck. She started working with mainframes when punch cards were still used for input.  Her work with technology continued through the earliest days of the personal computing era, she would eventually take on software licensing and IT inventory and later  use these skills when starting with Larimer County. In the late 1970s, her family would take several road trips to the east coast, and North Carolina, to visit her father's relatives, which would profoundly deepen her appreciation of her family history. In 1978, the family moved to Fort Collins, and in 1981 Maryann became a first-time homeowner herself.

In 1982 Maryann met Wes Greene, a fellow Kodaker in the Lithographic Plate Division at Kodak, and a romance followed. Their five-year courtship would often involve outings in Wes's 1974 Jeep CJ5 to scenic places in the Colorado & Wyoming Rockies and other trips into Rocky Mountain National Forest to go rock hounding and plinking with Maryann's father. Maryann and Wes were joined in marriage August 15, 1987. Wes brought his young daughter, Melanie from a previous relationship as Marynn and Wes formed their family. To Melanie, Maryann was a profound role model and positive guiding influence as a stepmother. In 1988, Maryann and Wes would move to their current Fort Collins home and the next year, in July 1989 would welcome their first and only child together, Jackson into the world. Maryann would have free babysitting in the form of both sets of Jackson's grandparents living close by in Fort Collins, plus Maryann's aunt who had moved to be nearby after being widowed in 1989. Life could not be more blessed for little Jackson. In addition to human children, Maryann and Wes would adopt a series of dogs throughout their marriage, most often being the American Eskimo Spitz. Holidays were special to Maryann, no matter the holiday she would decorate the house and costume, both Mel and Jackson, even going, as far as costume dogs, cats, and any other critter residing in the Greene household

In 2005, winds of change would come to Kodak in Windsor, sadly the facility would eventually wind down operations over the following decade. Maryann would explore her artistic and historical interests. Her and Wes enjoyed frequenting antique stores and flea markets on weekends, and so she turned a pastime hobby into a fun part time job, working at the Fort Collins Antique Mall arranging booths and displaying antiques. In the mid-2000s she would work for the Metropolitan Front Range Planning Organization before plying her technical knowledge to Larimer County for the remainder of her working life. When she retired from Larimer County in 2024, she had set up an upstairs jewelry and sewing studio. She intended to continue making her many crafts. In 2020, Jackson brought new light into Maryann's life in the form of a daughter-in-law. Daiana hailed from Argentina and grew remarkably close to Maryann. Maryann was a second mother to Daiana, whose mother passed when she was younger. Buying clothes, making clothes, and making jewelry for Daiana became one of Maryann's favorite retirement pastimes. Other memorable interests include reading, her Celtic, Scots Irish and Welsh heritage, Outlander marathons, her trivial knowledge of classic rock, historical knowledge of Colorado & Wyoming haunted history, and British humor comedy shows. There were her collections of metal yard art, computer circuit board wall art, pink flamingos, yard gnomes, all things Hello Kitty related, Godzilla, Gumbie, rubber ducks, and Sinclair dinosaurs. Wes gifted Maryann a full sized blue dino for Christmas in 2025 which promptly received the green Sinclair paint scheme. This was the pinnacle to her Sinclair collection, and it made her year. There was her incredible cooking, known for her family renowned tamales, German chocolate, tiramisu cakes, krautburgers, butterball soup as well as her much loved monkey bread. We will never forget how during the pandemic, when her office worked from home, she took in a plant from a local greenhouse, and it contained a brown garden snail. She initially planned to release the snail in the backyard, but it was cold outside, the snail squeaked in terror, she felt pity and took him in knowing he would not survive the Colorado winter. That snail lived in a small   terrarium  among the house plants in the kitchen for over a year as a beloved pet she fed daily, until he passed from old age. Anybody who knew her would remember her by her quirky witty humor and unforgettable artsy sticker collections she adorned her computers and car with, or for having one of the most elaborately adorned workplace cubicles.

It is impossible to adequately describe how she will be missed in every way by family near and far, neighbors and former coworkers. She was the keeper of family recipes from both her family and Wes's family, she was also a familial barde, historian, and genealogist (a skill she inherited from her father, Bill). Most importantly she was the family glue. Her unexpected and untimely passing was a surprise to all. Her absence leaves a vast void that is onerous to reconcile. Heaven must have needed another angel. She was proud of the son she raised, daughter-in-law and stepdaughter, three people who would consider her world's best mom.

Maryann is preceded in the next realm by her parents Prudyann & Bill Thompson, her in-laws Wilton & Althea (Fritzler) Greene, her grandparents, her three maternal cousins Edward McNally, Patrick McNally, and Mike McNally. She is also preceded by the many cats, dogs, and other critters that inhabited everywhere she called home, waiting for her on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge. Maryann is survived by her husband Wes Greene & their two small dogs of Ft. Collins Colorado, her son Jackson Greene & daughter-in-law Daiana Greene & two small grand dogs plus other critters of Bushnell Nebraska, stepdaughter Melanie Harris of Cornelius Oregon. She is also survived, by her maternal cousins Marie (McNally) Wilson of Cheyenne WY, and Judy (McNally) Reese of Denver CO, as well as paternal cousins, the Buchanans of Grassy Creek NC.