Charles R. Green

on August 13, 1932 in the home of his parents, Olga and Clarence Green. Warroad is also home of Marvin Windows where he worked as a teen in the summer between school years.

High school was filled with sports and music. In sports, he was all conference in football his senior year. At a regional music festival during his high school years, he was awarded the top vocal soloist honor. Choral directors from Bemidji State College and Concordia College in Moorehead, MN were there and both tried to recruit him, both for sports and music. Concordia won. He attended Concordia and sang in the Concordia Touring Concert Choir, directed by Paul J. Christiansen. During a tour with the Concordia Choir, Chuck had the honor to sing a solo in Carnegie Hall. During his years at Concordia, Chuck even gave consideration to attending a Seminary.

Chuck was a runner and his best time after returning from the tour was 52 seconds for the 400 meter race in which several colleges competed. He also competed in the broad jump and came in third in most metes. And, of course, he also played hockey.

In the summer of 1949, Chuck joined the Navy Reserve. He was placed on Inactive Reserve Status as there was no place locally to attend weekly or weekend training sessions and with no obligation to attend training unless he moved to a city with an active reserve station. When he went to college the fall of 1950 in Moorehead, MN, the Navy advised him to attend the Navy Reserve training in Fargo, MN. In November of 1950 the Navy offered a 2-year active duty period for active reservists.

In 1953 he reported to Great Lakes Naval Station for initial training. Two months later he was assigned to the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida and assigned to the VF-174, a fighter squadron. Later he as assigned to Guantanamo in Cuba for three months.

Upon returning to Jacksonville, he met his first wife, Janet Leisegang and they were married in March of 1955 at the Lutheran Church in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The couple adopted two boys, Mark in October 1964 and Tony in July, 1965. In 1973, they all moved to Tallahassee, FL.

Jan and Chuck were divorced in May, 1975.

Chuck worked for Prudential Insurance Company in Jacksonville and was trained in the Real Estate Mortgage and Loan Division. In 1959 he turned down a move to Newark, NJ and joined up with 4 others to form a mortgage banking company, Mortgage Corporation of America. Later, he became tired of so much travel and left MCA, but soon had a call from a friend to help with shopping center developments, which he did.

In early 1977 he was contacted by Mercantile Bank in St. Louis, MO. to come to St. Louis and rehab foreclosures to be sold as income producing properties.

Chuck married Beverly Brown in 1977. Beverly had two sons — Rick, 20 and Lex, 13. In 1979 Lex became ill with cancer and passed in 1980. Chuck felt a tremendous kinship with these two and they were happy to call him Dad.

When he finished the assignment in St. Louis, Chuck moved back to Tallahassee and started his own business, TRAC Realty and Development. In 1988 Chuck developed a 65,000 square foot strip center in Tallahassee. Because of the EPA rules and regulations that were what he felt prohibitive, he and Beverly formed The Green Team for residential business at which they were very successful.

In July of 1997, Beverly’s son Rick Hollahan and wife Beth informed them of the pending birth of their first grandchild in Decatur, GA after several years of marriage. Chuck and Beverly immediately made plans to move to the Atlanta area to be with this much-wanted grandchild. They moved to the Atlanta area in 1998. Their granddaughter, Nicole Hollahan was born and they were deliriously happy. Second child, Jason, followed and their happiness grew greatly.

Retirement was ready for them as they moved to the Atlanta area.

Chuck had been a very active member of the BarberShop Harmony Society since 1985 in Tallahassee and continued that in Atlanta when they moved. He became affiliated with The Stone Mountain Chorus, and soon The Big Chicken Chorus which was one of the countries top five choruses and he and Beverly attended many of the International contests held in various parts of the country every year. The affiliation with The Big Chicken Chorus brought them into contact with Donovan Moe and his partner, Brenda Daly with whom they became friends. The four traveled together both in the United States and in Europe and went to many barber shop events together from 1998 to 2012, when Beverly passed away unexpectedly. In December of the same year, Donovan passed away — totally unexpected.

The shock lasted several months and when the depression of these deaths was eased, he began to see Brenda and they both decided they had a future together. They became a couple of Domestic Partners in 2013.

Chuck’s last birthday party, the 93rd, was held in their home in Waleska, GA - in the foothills of the North Georgia mountains with 70 good friends and fellow barber shoppers that spent the afternoon singing and laughing and enjoying each other.

Chuck is pre-ceded in death by his parents, Olga and Clarence Green; his late wife, Beverly Brown Green; his son, Tony; and his step-sons, Lex and Rick, and his older brother, James Green.

He is survived by his Domestic Partner, Brenda Daly of Waleska, GA, his son and Daughter-in-law, Mark and Carole Green, his daughter-in-law, Beth Hollahan, and his grandchildren, Nicole and Jason Hollahan, and Parker Green; his brother Robert “Bob” Green and partner Debbie Green, and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

Funeral services will be held at the Waleska United Methodist Church on the Reinhardt University Campus in Waleska, Georgia on September 7, 2025. Interment will be on September 20, 2025 at the Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida.