Leonard A. Greene CHARLESTON – Leonard A. Greene, of Charleston, SC and Highlands, NC, passed away suddenly at his home on September 14, 2023. Born March 27, 1947 in Vienna, Austria to Sam and Regina Greene, Lenny soon found his lifelong home when the family immigrated to the United States and settled in Charleston.
Lenny attended Meminger School and Charleston High before departing to earn his BSEE at Georgia Tech and an MBA at the University of Southern California. During the Vietnam War, Lenny honorably served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where he was initially stationed stateside, then in Indonesia and Taiwan. After the end of the war, Lenny volunteered with the Peace Corps and spent time working with USAID in Afghanistan from 1977 to 1978, through the Saur Revolution and the initial run-up to the Soviet-Afghan War. Upon returning to the United States and to his home turf of Charleston, he put his MBA to use in founding his own electrical engineering firm, Orbital Engineering.
Outside of work, Lenny was an avid sportsman, hunter, and cyclist, and loved to spend time with his many friends. After retiring and devoting himself full-time to his friends and hobbies, Lenny split his time between Charleston and Highlands, NC, where he found his peace with his beloved partner Barbara Wade.
Lenny is survived by daughters Chloe and Sophia Greene, siblings, Harlan, Karen, and Tom Greene, and long-term partner, Barbara Wade. A memorial service will be held at his home in North Charleston on Monday the 18th at 5PM. In honor of Lenny’s peace work, memorials may be made to Vostok SOS (vostok-sos.org) to aid those affected by the war in Ukraine.
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