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Duff McDuff Green Jr.
Date published: 6/24/2009 Duff McDuff Green Jr. Duff McDuff Green Jr. died Sunday night at his home, Little Falls Farm in Stafford County. He was 88. Mr. Green was a retired farmer and businessman, having owned and operated J.W. Masters for nearly 35 years, before selling it to Roper Brothers Lumber Co. He got his start in the lumber industry with Johnson & Wimsatt, a building supply firm in Washington, where he worked for 25 years. Desiring to own his own company, he formed a partnership with John Wimsatt and purchased J.W. Masters as well as Edgar M. Young & Sons. Mr. Green became the sole owner of the combined companies after Mr. Wimsatt's death. The oldest of five children, Mr. Green was born into a family whose roots grew deep into the soil of his native Virginia. He was related to some of the Fredericksburg region's oldest families, including the Greens, Howisons, Montagues, Paynes, Gordons and Ashbys. He grew up at Wortley, a family farm near Aden in Prince William County established by his grandparents Mary Lelia Montague and Allen Howison Green. The farm is now the location of Camp Upshur on the Quantico Marine Corps Base. Mr. Green's great-grandfather, also named Duff McDuff Green, was the first Green in this area, having moved to Falmouth from Culpeper County. He became a prominent farmer, merchant, justice of the peace and trustee of Falmouth. He also ran a cotton mill and established a home called Ridgeway, now the site of Stafford High School. Mr. Green was proud of his agrarian roots and his kinship with people who were both genteel and hard-working. He treasured family stories as a child, and as an adult, he found many ways to honor those who had come before him. In 1966, he took over the regular maintenance of several family cemeteries, a task that included decorating the graves every year at Christmastime. Well into his 80s, he made more than a dozen evergreen sprays with red bows for the graves of his parents, grandparents and other cherished relatives buried in plots at Ridgeway, Manassas Cemetery and Effingham, ancestral home of the Howisons in Prince William County. He once said that he did it "because it makes me feel good."
Date published: 6/24/2009
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