Francis N. Greene, a retired banker and accomplished yachtsman, died May 27 of Parkinson's disease at Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, Maine. The former Rodgers Forge resident was 85.
The son of Michael Francis Greene, an electrician, and Katherine Eleanor Winand, a registered nurse, Francis Nevin Greene was born in Washington. He was raised in Pikesville by Thomas J. Winand, his maternal grandfather, who had been an owner of the company that distilled Pikesville Rye, and several aunts.
He was a 1948 graduate of Franklin High School and earned a bachelor's degree in 1952 from what is now Loyola University Maryland.
He began his business career with Commercial Credit Corp. before joining Farmers National Bank in 1959 in Annapolis, where he rose to become vice president. He retired in 1986.
After retiring, he worked in an advisory capacity as a director and member of the executive committee of Atlantic National Bank of Ocean City.
In Annapolis, he had been president of the Jaycees of the Capital District of the Boy Scouts of America and director of the Annapolis YMCA. He had been president and a founding director of the Annapolis chapter of the Young Republican Club and a director of the Salvation Army.
The former resident of West Joppa Road in Towson moved to Annapolis in 1960. He later settled in Rodgers Forge, and last October moved to Birch Bay Village, a Bar Harbor retirement community.
He enjoyed sailing his Chesapeake Bay skipjack, the Reliance, and oystering near Tilghman Island. He had been a member of the Annapolis Yacht Club for 27 years.
Mr. Greene continued fly fishing until he was in his late 70s. He liked to paint in oils, wood carving, training bird dogs and water fowl shooting at Goose Hill Farm in Kent County, of which he was a co-owner with three friends.
He spent summers in Northeast Harbor, Maine, for many years, family members said.
"He loved Pikesville Rye on pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving," said a daughter, Katherine Greene "Katy" Davis of Fells Point.
Plans for a memorial gathering are incomplete.
Mr. Greene is survived by his wife of 25 years, the former Leanna M. Haynie; a son, Michael Winand Greene of Auburn, Ala.; two other daughters, Elizabeth Batten Greene of Roland Park and Anne Greene Wagner of Los Angeles; two stepdaughters, Erika Mitchell of Northeast Harbor, Maine, and Allison Wibby of Portland, Ore.; two brothers, Thomas W. Greene of Guilford and John W. Greene of Butler; and nine grandchildren. An earlier marriage to the former Nelly Batten Chapman ended in divorce.