dear frank, my childhood best friend, my best friend forever. today i had found out threw face book, that your sister had trouble finding me after all these years wow i wish i would have stayed in touch. hanging out at your house while you drew all those comics. i remember laughing in your art studio. or when after years you came to my house in seaford , when amanda was first born. or the poker runs i went to and your parents were there to bring my trophy home for me. you were pretty buff then , remember how you just started working out. we always got on our brother and sisters nerve lol following them around to the game room and all. i am so sad to hear your passing. and i shed tears in rememberence, with smile. you were my true friend threw the tough years in high school. and you will be greatly missed. love barbara i posted a pic of me and my brother at kims wedding. i love you bro.
Dear Frank...I've learned of your passing only a few days ago, it is now Aug. 25, 2008. I was on my computer the other day and received notifications from Classmates.com and the Division Avenue High School site. I noticed the last name in one of the sites, Brimlow... and saw it was that of your sister whom I remembered was a grade older than you and me. I couldn't remember your sister's first name at the time, but remembered exactly what she looked like and how close you and her were, especially during our grammar school years at Wisdom Lane in Levittown. I immediately clicked on her name, saw her picture, and noticed she looks the same, which is a compliment...Then I read her bio and I couldn't believe you were gone.....I've been corresponding with her over special stories about you, about her, about mutual friends, classmates, aquaintances, etc. She is a special person and a great sister of yours, as I remember you were a great brother of hers...and now I see how you two were even more special together. I wrote about you the other day on Newsday.com. in reference to your obituary. You and me were in the same class, like 4th and 5th grade, maybe more...we would graduate together...We were in a school play together, you and I went to see a Don Adams movie together as he played his Maxwell Smart character, you saw Kramer vs. Kramer with me and my parents at the old Levittown theater back in like the summer of '80. You would come over to my house and go in my pool...I remember your gray house on Bell Lane and still cut through there from time to time on my way to either HSBC bank to pay my mortgage or go to the library. It's funny how someone here wrote that you had a distinctive laugh, and that is exactly what I told Terri. I said I can still hear your laugh, and still see your face, without looking at a photo...As I'm scrolling through this entire site, and looking at every photo, the song "Through the Years" has been constantly playing...I have not turned down the volume...I danced to this song with my Mom during my wedding reception at the Coral House in Baldwin on Saturday, September 11, 1999...a song I chose to dance with her...I see there is a picture of you here in a black Ford Muustang...my favorite car in the world...I owned a black 1989 5.0 5 speed GT from Sept. 1989 to late August 1999...then sold it as I was about to be married...I held on to my last registration, just to remember the VIN number...I regulary attend St. James mass in Seaford on Saturday's, sometimes Sunday's, for the past about 5 years...I used to go to pray for a baby...I now have a son that will turn 3 on Nov. 20...I now go to church....to THANK for a baby....Today I went and lit a candle for you....I want to thank you Frank for knowing you..and I hope to see you one day again up in heaven...I know I will. I just told Terri of a memory I had of her and you, near Fred's deli back in the late 70's..you and me would sometimes go to lunch together...I said I remember her asking you if you have your homework done, and how did you do on the test, and for you to come straight home after school for a terrific dinner...just like the great sister she is...One last thing Frank, I noticed your sister's last name now, and I told her the other night in an email that I knew of a Gail Woodruff who was so beautiful, so down to earth, and had a great shiny black firebird, trans am, or camaro...she would die in a vehicle accident and I attended her wake...Terri told me indeed that her last name is in relation to Gail...she married her brother...Frank, you have a wonderful angel along side you in Gail and you are a wonderful angel protecting your family...Terri wrote in here that she noticed that she didn't have to protect you anymore when you stuck up for her..even though she still did protect you, as any great sister would do, and you protected her on earth, and now in heaven...! Take care, my friend...and I hope your loved ones, family, friends, and everyone is at peace and I want to thank you, Frank, for being a part of my childhood....Ron Holmes
My Dear Brother - Today marks one year since you've been gone - had I already been in Heaven when you arrived I would surely be celebrating today. Truth is time is passing and I am missing you more with each day. We speak of you everyday in one way or another - your memory is a real as you have always been. Alec says "God should let you come home from work now". I told him you will happily wait until we all meet again one day. I love you so much - you are the best brother a sister could have wished for. I miss you more then you know!! Love, Terri
Teresa Senior sent me a few pictures of Franks Artwork, and a picture of him at 17, and one of her and him at school sitting at the bleachers. I was overwhelmed with the package. Franks Artwork was always wonderful, even as a young boy beautiful ! He drew these pictures for her. And she saved them all these years. I was so Grateful.
This is another great photo I have come across, of yet another great day. This was the day of Alec's Baptism - and once again Frank being there truly completes the memory for me. Not only was he a great brother and a great son, he was a great uncle. Frank you will forever be in our hearts and your memory will forever be spoken of...to those of us who really love you your legacy is as real as the emptiness we now all have. You completed us !! I will always love you my brother.
Frank,
I think of you.
I think of you often.
Your gentle heart,
Your loving nature,
Your serenity,
Your passions: Family; Peace; Love; Harmony; Laughter.
Your delights: Music; Movies; Anything Hi-Tech.
You hold a place in my heart and soul,
A place that will always be filled with you;
Your being.
My love embraces and holds you.
All my love,
Angelo
This picture was just taken last week:
This is me Terri, Alec (notice the Superman pajamas) and Jon Franks' best friend in the whole world. The only way this picture would be complete is if Frank was in it too. Wow, not a day goes by that, that statement doesn't apply. My brother we all miss you so much.
This picture was taken in Chicago.. Frank moved there with his friend Angelo. He worked in his favorite store, Best Buy when he lived there. I went there to visit him. I missed him so much. He missed us too, so he came back.... who would have thought.. I didn't think then that it could get worse.
