Farewell, Frank

Frank Stanley, a long time club volunteer, passed away on September 2, 2009. Frank, in many ways, was the club mascot known and loved by all. Frank was 72, but as John Martland mentioned from the stage on Friday night, he probably had celebrated 154 birthdays over his lifetime. Frank not only volunteered at the club but scores of other places as well. It seems all of them wanted to throw parties for him.

As Mansel Davies said to the crowd last night, “Frank had an ability to bring us all together.” According to John Martland, this was especially true at his funeral, where members of all the volunteer organizations Frank belonged to met for the first time and started to trade similar stories of their beloved Frank. “He is still bringing us together,” Martland said.

Frank will be missed greatly and remembered fondly at our club where he was a permanent fixture and welcome reminder that the CFC is made possible only through the work of committed and dedicated volunteers.