On Tuesday September 22, 2022, my beloved mother Gaynell Green departed this life for a better life with her Lord and Savior. Gaynell was born on November 30, 1941 in Danville Virginia to the late George Washington Sydnor and Victoria Woods Sydnor. She was educated in Danville Public School System.

Gaynell accepted Christ at an early age, she join Sandy Creek Baptist Church and sang in the Liberty Hill Community Choir which her mother started, everyone that sang in the community choir were members of Sandy Creek Baptist Church so it became Sandy Creek Baptist Church Choir.

In the early sixties Gaynell moved to Brooklyn NY during this time she was married to the late Howard Graves from that union one child was born, Wanda Graves Mitchell.

Wanda was her mother’s greatest joy, her best friend – she was everything to her, it was always the two of them against the world.

Gaynell was a faithful member of Greater Friendship Baptist Church where she sang in the choir and usher for more than twenty plus years. She loved her church family and loved singing praises to her Lord and Savior a few of her favorite songs were “Packing Up, Sweet Home, and I’m On the Right Road Now”.

Gaynell Green was married a second time to the late Joe Louis Green of Oriental NC for 11 years no children were born of this union.

Gaynell also worked at Queens College for 20 years before retiring in 2004.

Gaynell was a loving, devoted, and caring mother, grandmother and sister. She had the strangest way of showing her family and friend how much she loved them but in spite of it all you new she loved you know matter what.

Gaynell was predeceased by her husband, Joe, her parents, George and Victoria Sydnor; her brother, Wesley Woods, her niece, Sharon Sanders and her nephew, Bailey Woods.

Gaynell leaves to cherish her memory her daughter, Wanda Mitchell (Prince) of Brooklyn ,NY; her brother, James Sydnor, Sr., of Portsmouth, VA; her grandchildren, Naquan Mitchell (Maria) of Aroniza; Laquisa Curtis (Rasheem) of Brooklyn, NY; great grandchildren, Rahmir Mitchell, Reylan Mitchell, Mikayla Curtis, Kyra Curtis, Kylie Curtis, Malori Curtis, her God-daughter, Stephanie Fowler of Georgia; four nieces, Helen Cobbs, Ella Ferrell of Danville, VA; Denise Shabazz of Baltimore, MD; Charlene Hawkins known as her Lizzie of Portsmouth, VA; four nephews, James Sydno, Jr., of Portsmouth, VA; George Sydnor of Chesapeake, VA; Lewis Newman of Brooklyn, NY; Pucci Sydnor her Moon Mullins Maryland; and her sister, in love Rebecca Nelson of Chesapeake, VA; and a host of other family members and friends.

“Well done, thy good and faithful servant”

Celebration of Life Services for Mrs. Gaynell Green will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, September 30, 2022  with a viewing from 10:00a.m. until hour of service at Greater Friendship Baptist Church 276 Buffalo Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11213 with Pastor Gregory Creamer, Eulogy, officiating. Interment service will be held Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. in the New Sandy Creek Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery 1212 Old Richmond Road Keeling Virginia 24566.

The family is asked to assemble at the church on day of interment at 2:45p.m.

Professional funeral services have been entrusted to the staff of the J.L. Dodson and Sons Funeral Establishment, 447 Old South Main St. Danville, Va., Rev. Jeffrey L. Dodson, Sr., Funeral Director., (434)799-9262. Online condolences may be registered at www.jldodsonandsons.com. “Our Family Servicing Your Family”