Our dear friend and honorary member of the South Dakota Woodcarvers, Inc. passed away February 18, 2014. Our club and its individual members were among many of the benefactors of Frank's generosity and willingness to be of service to any one who needed help. We very much appreciated his judging our competitions and inviting us over to his house to see his collection of fine art. His memorial service today at the First Reformed Church in Sioux Falls was truly inspirational, and I feel privileged to have been familiar with many of the characterizations and anecdotes that were told by family and friends.
In particular I am honored to have shared in some small way in the story of his son-in-law asking him for his daughter's hand in marriage. He leaned back in his chair and said "Well...Quite Frankly...", and that of course was the title of the carving his family commissioned me to do.
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