Dennis P. Green, 58, banker

Dennis P. Green, 58, formerly of Philadelphia and brother of the former mayor, died of apparent heart failure Nov. 19 at his home in Palm Springs, Calif., where he had lived for the last two years. He was a bank executive and community activist.

Mr. Green was managing director of Northern Trust Bank in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Before that, he had a 25-year career with PNC Financial Services in Philadelphia and retired as a vice president in 2005.

Mr. Green grew up with five siblings in Torresdale. His father, William J. Green Jr., was a U.S. representative for 18 years and headed the Democratic Party in Philadelphia until his death in 1963. His brother, William III, also served in the U.S. House of Representatives and was mayor of Philadelphia from 1980 to 1984. Mr. Green and the rest of the family assisted in his brother's political campaigns, his sister Mary DiNubile said. This month, his nephew Bill Green was elected to Philadelphia City Council.

"Dennis was the rock in our big Irish family," DiNubile said. He was very caring toward their widowed mother, Mary Kelly Green, and gave the eulogy at her funeral in 1997, she said.

He was devoted to his 17 nieces and nephews, his sister said, and treated each of his seven nieces to a special dinner on her 16th birthday.

Mr. Green graduated from Holy Ghost Preparatory School in Bensalem and earned a bachelor's degree from La Salle College. After earning a law degree from Loyola University in New Orleans, he was a lawyer in the inheritance and tax division of the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office in Philadelphia.

In the 1970s, Mr. Green restored a 19th-century townhouse in Spring Garden and served a term as vice president of the Spring Garden Civic Association. After moving to Overbrook Farms in the 1990s, he restored a large Victorian house that was featured on neighborhood tours. He had been active in the Overbrook Farms Club and had served on the Planned Giving Advisory Committee of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He formerly served on the boards of Action AIDS and the Arthritis Foundation in Philadelphia.

In addition to his brother, sister, nieces and nephews, Mr. Green is survived by a sister, Anne Michals; brothers Michael and Patrick; and his companion of 12 years, Peter Rittenhouse.

A Funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Our Mother of Consolation Church, 9 E. Chestnut Hill Ave., Philadelphia. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today at McIlvaine Funeral Home, 3711 Midvale Ave., Philadelphia.