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Robert was the charter member of the Rockhurst College (now Rockhurst University), Board of Regents founded in 1956, and a 30-year member of the college’s Honorary Directors Association. Following the tragic loss of Bobby, Robert became involved in the education of boys. He financed the education of several young men and of course, (as indicated on other pages), he contributed quite substantially to both Rockhurst High School and Rockhurst College.
There will always be more to be said and likely will be said about the life of the late Robert C. Greenlease. In the future this site shall continue to reveal even more actual stories of his remarkable family and his successful business life and more will be recalled of his astounding desire to always be generous with his wealth. History will likely judge Robert very kindly. This site confirms what friends and family know of his kindness and his generosity.
Robert C. Greenlease, Sr. passed from this life on September 17, 1969 in his home on Verona Road in Mission Hills, Kansas. He was 87 at the time he passed from this life. His fitting funeral service tribute was conducted in the D. W. Newcomer’s Sons Stine & McClure Funeral Home Chapel located at 3235 Gillham Plaza, exactly three blocks south of his Greenlease Cadillac Motor Company on Gillham Road. Dr. Lawrence W. Bash, Pastor of the Country Club Christian Church officiated, along with the Rev. Maurice Van Ackeren, S. J., President of Rockhurst College. Robert was entombed in the same crypt room in the Forest Hill Abbey Mausoleum in Forest Hill Cemetery on Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri where his beloved son Bobby had been laid to rest in 1953, and where his beloved wife Virginia and beloved daughter Virginia Sue would in later years also be entombed. His parents (Charles and Julia Marie Greenlease), and some other members of his family are interred in the historic Elmwood Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.
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