Charles H Price II

Charles Harry Price II was born April 1, 1931, in Kansas City, Mo., and spent much of his life there. His father ran Price Candy Co., which he founded in 1913 in Kansas City. The junior Price spent two years at the University of Missouri and served in the Air Force in the 1950s. In 1969, he married Carol Ann Swanson, an heiress to a frozen food fortune, and they raised three children. They survive him, as do two children from a previous marriage and several grandchildren, according to the Star. From 1973 to 1981, Price was chairman and chief executive of American Bank and Trust Co. of Kansas City. He also operated Price Candy until it was sold in 1982. In 1981, President Reagan named Price ambassador to Belgium. Two years later, Price moved from Brussels to London to become ambassador to Britain, a post he held until the end of Reagan's second term in 1989. After his years as a diplomat, Price resumed his banking career, which included a chairmanship at Mercantile Bank of Kansas City. He is survived by Carol, their son Charles H. Price III in London, daughters Caroline McCallister and Melissa Carlson, of Washington D.C., two children from a previous marriage — Pickette Price and Charles Blair Price — and several grandchildren.