Bobby’s life was celebrated to be certain. The Greenlease Family had a  Rosary prayed on the evening of October 8, 1953 at the W. G. Pierson Stine & McClure Funeral Home, located three blocks south of the Greenlease Cadillac Motor Company. The Holy Mass of the Angels was celebrated for Bobby on October 9, 1953, in his Church, St. Agnes Catholic Church in Roeland Park, Kansas, and was presided over by Archbishop Edward Hunkeler of Kansas City, Kansas, and  Msgr. Herman J. Koch, the Parish Pastor. This is the same Church where Bobby was Baptized as an infant, and where he was an active member. Bobby Greenlease was entombed in the family crypt in the Forest Hill Abbey Mausoleum inside Forest Hill Cemetery  located at  6901 Troost Avenue in  Kansas City, Missouri. Bobby’s father, his mother, and his sister are also entombed in the same room with Bobby. His brother Paul and his family are interred elsewhere in the same cemetery.

For this site to actually detail even more of Bobby’s short-lived life is something to perhaps be continued in the future. This site now is recalling what Virginia expressed about Bobby and his family over the course of several years.

Bobby and Robert C. Greenlease

European Vacation in August, 1953

Bobby is holding a box of pop corn

His Mother articulated so many stories across the years and perhaps even more of what Virginia recalled of these personal events will be included  in this site in the future. Virginia wanted there to be an enduring record that would recall what she experienced with Bobby and her entire family and across so many years. This web site will continue to express her thoughts and in a manner so as to always respect Virginia’s privacy and to serve as another means to honor her and to record the thoughts she expressed the last few years of her life.

Bobby praying in the Chapel

Notre Dame de Sion School

September, 1953

This site decided early on not to dwell on the horrible and tragic details of Bobby’s actual passing. So much could be recalled about the tragedy, but it serves nothing good for this site to make this the primary emphasis. Virginia clearly recalled Bobby for the happy and joyful times, and, as well, the spiritual times she spent together with Bobby and her entire family. Virginia was always precise and quite clear when she expressed her thoughts about her family.

The Souls of the just are always in the hands of God and Virginia believed everything in this life is “Decreed by Divine Providence.” God leads us through those still calm waters and each one of us really are put here for God’s good purpose. Virginia firmly believed and also affirmed: “If we are slow to forgive, we are also very slow to love. Love and forgiveness go hand in hand; entwined!” Virginia truly believed this: “Life was like being on a very large boat and we are all, hopefully, rowing together to complete our goal of reaching that other distant shore.” Virginia Greenlease deeply believed that at some time, everyone hopefully will reach that “other distant shore,” and she desired to live her own daily life in a manner always pleasing unto God, so that she too would forever be with Jesus and His Mother, and all of the Saints in Heaven, and her beloved family.

           “May the Souls of the Faithful departed, through the Mercy of God, Rest in Peace...”

                                                                                                                                                 Amen.          
 

Web site note:  The FBI still holds the Greenlease Kidnapping and Murder Case files open, and even after all of these years, since one half of the ransom money paid to the kidnapper’s/murderers for Bobby’s release has never been recovered.