Orville "Leslie" Price, Jr., 85, Harrisonville, MO, died Saturday, January 27, 2018 at Golden Years Care Center in Harrisonville. Funeral services were held Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at the Atkinson Funeral Home in Harrisonville with burial in Grandview Cemetery, Albany, MO.

Leslie was born May 12, 1932 in rural Gentry County, MO, the only son of Orville Leslie and Agnes (Boulting) Price, Sr. He was a 1951 graduate of Central High School in St. Joseph, MO. He accepted Jesus as his Savior at age nine. He was licensed to gospel ministry by the Savannah Avenue Baptist Church in St. Joseph, MO in 1950.

Leslie graduated from William Jewell College in 1954, receiving a BA in history and a minor in psychology and economics. He attended Central Seminary in Kansas City, KS and graduated from Golden Gate Seminary in Berkeley, CA in 1958. Leslie was ordained to gospel ministry by the Wyatt Park Baptist Church in St. Joseph.

While in seminary, Leslie met Virginia Rhea Pinkley from Bruceton, TN. They were united in marriage on December 22, 1957 in Berkeley, CA. To this union were born three sons, Orville Leslie Price, III, Jeffrey David Price, and Kevin Lee Price. Leslie served as pastor of the Pilot Grove Baptist Church, Mt. Nebo Baptist Church, Grain Valley Baptist Church, Wheeling Missouri Baptist church, Huntsville Baptist Church, and Midway Baptist Church in Easton, MO. In 1967, Leslie was employed by the Missouri Division of Family Services. He was in the Buchanan County office as a social worker. In 1970 he was promoted to case worker supervisor and advanced to Cass County Director in 1971 where he worked until he retired on December 31, 1997. He was a member of Faith Baptist Church in Harrisonville.

Following retirement, Leslie and his faithful wife, Virginia, served as Southern Baptist Home Mission Board volunteers in Missouri, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Texas. Besides his religious duties, he was an avid genealogy researcher for all known lines of his family tree, especially the Boulting and Price families.

Leslie is survived by his wife, Virginia, of the home; three sons, Orville Leslie Price, III, Leavenworth, KS, Jeffrey Price, Cedar Grove, TN, and Kevin Price, Cary, IL, and two grandchildren, Nathan and Julia.