Ex-Cubs GM Green’s granddaughter among six killed in Ariz.
' + first_letter + ' Jan 9, 2011 11:24AM
The 9-year-old granddaughter of former Cubs General Manager Dallas Green was among the six people killed in a rampage in Arizona that targeted Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Green is now an executive advisor for the Philadelphia Phillies, which he managed to the World Series championship in 1980.
“She was a talented young girl with a bright promising future. Her untimely death weighs heavily on our hearts,” Philadelphia Phillies president David Montgomery said Sunday. The Phillies said the girl’s name was spelled Christina-Taylor Green; Arizona authorities provided a different spelling, Christina Greene.
Greg Segalini, an uncle of the girl, told the Arizona Republic that a neighbor was going to Giffords event at a grocery store and invited her along because she had just been elected to the student council and was interested in government.
Christina, who was born on Sept. 11, 2001, was involved in various activities, from ballet to baseball, and had just received her first Holy Communion at St. Odilia’s Catholic Church in Tucson, Catholic Diocese of Tucson officials told The Arizona Daily Star.
Her birth date no doubt helped prod the girl’s interest in politics, her mother, Roxanna Green, told the Star. She was one of 50 babies born on Sept. 11 featured in a book called “Faces of Hope.”
“She was born back East and Sept. 11 affected everyone there, and Christina-Taylor was always very aware of it. She was very patriotic and wearing red, white and blue was really special to her,” her mother said.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Ex-Cubs GM Green’s granddaughter among six killed in Ariz. - Chicago Sun-Times
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