Thank You, Everyone

It was wonderful to see so many of dad's friends and family in attendance on Friday. Having you there to pay your respects and give your support to the family lifted our spirits, especially knowing that many of you had to fly down or make a long drive in order to be with us.

Please continue to check back with this website over the next few weeks. We will be adding more pictures as we come across them. And keep sending your pictures with dad so we can add more work and play related activities to the slide show -- don't worry about shrinking the photos down for email, I have a cable modem that makes short work of large files.

For those of you who have posted comments, thank you. Reading your stories about times with dad at work, on business trips, at neighborhood gatherings, etc. has helped bring back even more memories for us (don't worry, we'll be posting our own family memories as well). For those of you who have yet to post a comment -- what are you waiting for? Remember, you can post through the website option, or via email.

Thank you again for all of your support. Special thanks for their help in preparing for the services go out to Pat, Joe, and Rebecca; Denny and Linda; Dave (aka DVR) and Stephanie; Helene; Grandmom (Pat Collins) and all of her friends at First United Methodist and PEO; Carolyn and Katie at St. Timothy's; Becki at Funeral Alternatives; and the Jacobson clan for jumping right into the fray when they arrived on Friday.

One last item... Dad was very excited by the SD Chargers prospects this year. Don't forget to pull for the Bolts during the playoffs!

Photos

A link to a slideshow has been added to the website. You can find the link on the right side of the site under photo gallery. If you have a picture that you would like to share with everyone, please e-mail a copy of it to inmemoryofpete@gmail.com. Include a brief description - names of people in the photo, activity, etc. - and approximate date for the photo so it can be filed appropriately. We'll do our best to add it to the slideshow as soon as possible.

Welcome, Family and Friends

As you all now are aware, our husband, son, father, and grandfather, Peter Anthony Frank, left us for the next life on January 4th, 2007. He passed peacefully in his sleep at 6:10 in the morning after an exhausting two year battle with cancer.

We know this must come as a shock to many of you, but Pete wanted his fight to be a personal one. The last thing he wanted was to burden all of his friends with the knowledge that he was fighting cancer. We hope those of you who were unaware of his condition will understand his choice.

It is our desire that this website will serve as a meeting place for everyone who knew Pete. We all experienced our time with Pete differently, and we all knew a different side of him. Please post comments with stories and memories of your times with him to share with all of his family and friends so we can all see a richer, more complete picture of him.

In addition, you will find links to the UCSD Moores Cancer Center and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society on this website. We, the family, are asking that donations be made to either of these organizations in lieu of flowers. Pete spent a lot of time at UCSD, and it played an important role in his treatment. The Lymphoma Society is significant because he was suffering from mantle cell lymphoma, a high mortality form of cancer that was only recently categorized and still has few treatment options. It would make him happy to know that your donations, on top of the experimental treatments in which he participated, may help the next person win the fight.