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A  LOVING  MEMORIAL TRIBUTE  TO  THE ROBERT C. GREENLEASE FAMILY

This site was created by Charles Greenlease  to serve as a living  and enduring tribute to part of the Greenlease Family of Kansas City. And this site will always focus on  their individual lives, and will even be updated from time to time.

Most of  what will be published will be personal, and insightful,  and some information was previously made public at various points in time. This site shall always attempt to honor their memory, and to provide  personal reflections and insights into each one of their lives.  This site will always be a “loving and ongoing work in progress!” Much of what is published on this site comes from a lifetime of conversations as a result of a lifetime close and personal friendships between Charles Greenlease and the late Robert C. Greenlease, Virginia P. Greenlease, and with other members of their family. Virginia personally shared with and gave Charles many photographs, letters, and other personal and private historical family memorabilia spanning  many years, and especially throughout the final few years of her life. Charles helped Virginia to organize her personal family estate sale when her Mission Hills, Kansas family home was sold. And he advised and assisted Virginia in regard to her major gifts to Visitation Catholic Church in Kansas City for the inspiring and beautiful St. Joseph Chapel, and her continued relationship with the Central City School Fund that  she originally helped initiate with the late Bishop John Sullivan, a longtime personal friend of  both Virginia and Charles.

Most people, when they do reflect on or have heard of the Greenlease Family in Kansas City, Missouri, will most likely think about the “Bobby Greenlease kidnapping, murder, and huge ransom paid in 1953, or perhaps the famous Greenlease Cadillac Motor Company.” (Obviously, the Greenlease family would have certainly preferred any notoriety created would have been limited only to the Cadillac Company and perhaps the philanthropy and charity work, but completely minus the sad and horrific loss of  Bobby Greenlease in 1953). While these particular chapters certainly do account for so much of the interest in this family, there are many other relevant and obviously important aspects to each one of the other individuals lives in this wonderful and unique American family.

You are most welcome to comment on anything you observe as you read through the following pages. And your comments will always be appreciated.  An e-mail address is available on this page.

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