Friday, October 11, 2019
To all Frank's family, I can't begin to tell you how sorry I am at his passing.
Frank and I were close friends for more than 60 years. When we were kids, Frank would call my mother Mom. When other people were around and looked confused, Mom would laugh and say, ‘Oh, he’s just my other oldest son Frankie’. We were as close as brothers back then. As we got older, we double dated; we were in each other’s weddings; we “discussed” politics and simply agreed to disagree; we hunted rabbits and quail on his grandmother’s farm in Blue Anchor; we mated our two beagles and ended up with a litter of nine pups. Frank & I each kept a pup from the litter and gave one to my mother. Years later we helped each other with the installation of PCs and networks for our customers. Frank covered for me when I came to Florida every winter to escape the cold weather after my radiation treatment. He would call when he needed my help to solve a problem, and the team of Frank & Frank, with very few exceptions, always got the job done. Frank would call me every year on my birthday in January to remind me that I would always be 19 days older than he was.
I’ll definitely miss the birthday calls and the calls for computer help. When we were leaving him after a visit last Sunday, he said "when this is all over, you know I’ll still be around". And he will be. He’ll live on in my memory and will always have a place in my heart. Friends like Frank don’t come along very often, which makes it almost impossibly hard to accept his passing.
May he rest in eternal peace.
