Rena Maverick Green
| Rena Maverick Green | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 10, 1874 Sedalia, Missouri |
| Died | November 29, 1962 (aged 88) San Antonio, Texas |
| Resting place | Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Texas |
| Alma mater | Stuart Hall School |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Berrien Green |
| Children | George Martha Mary Vance Rowena Robert |
Rena Maverick Green (February 10, 1874 – November 29, 1962) was an artist, a suffragist and a co-founder of the San Antonio Conservation Society. She was a pioneer female member of the San Antonio School Board and served on the board of trustees of the San Antonio Public Library. She was a preservationist for San Antonio history, including the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park and the saving of many city parks. Green helped preserve the Spanish Governor's Palace and the San Antonio River Walk. She was the granddaughter of a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and the widow of a Texas state Senator.
Mary Rowena Maverick, known her entire life as Rena, was the eldest child of George Madison Maverick and Mary Elizabeth Vance Maverick. She was born February 10, 1874 in Sedalia, Missouri. Her five siblings were pacifist suffragist Lola Maverick Lloyd (1875–1944), George Vance Maverick (1880–1926), artist and conservationist Lucy Madison Maverick (1883–1967), Augusta Lewis Maverick (b. 1885) and educator Lewis Adams Maverick (b. 1891) She attended the private educational institutions Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, and Stuart Hall School in Stanton, Virginia.
Her grandparents, Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803–1870), a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and pioneer diarist Mary Maverick (1818–1898), had been living in San Antonio since 1838. In 1896, George Madison and Mary Elizabeth Maverick and their six children moved to San Antonio.
She married Robert Berrien Green in 1897, and was widowed by 1907. The couple had four children. At the time of the marriage, her husband was judge of the Thirty-seventh Judicial District of Texas. In 1900, he was elected County Judge, and in 1906 was elected to the state Senate from the Twenty-fourth Senatorial District.
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