Norman Tingo Frank ”1926 - 2012”

Norman Tingo Frank

When Tomorrow Starts Without Me When tomorrow starts without me And I’m not here to see If the sun should rise and find your eyes All filled with tears for me I wish you wouldn’t cry The way you did today While thinking of the many things We did not get to say I know how much you love me As much as I love you Each time that you think of me I know you will miss me too David Romano

Norman Tingo Frank was the son of Henry and Ruby Geboe Frank. His family always called him "Buddy". Buddy was named after his grandfather, the Rev. Tingo Frank of Arbeka, Seminole County, Oklahoma. The Frank family were all full blood Creek Indians. Buddy's mother, Ruby, was only one half American Indian. Her heritage on her maternal side came from the Senaca-Cayuga Tribe located in Miami, Oklahoma. Her father was said to be French-Canadian, although he was adopted into the Peoria Tribe as a young man. The younger of two children, Buddy married in Oklahoma and then took his bride to live in California. They were the parents of two beautiful daughters. Buddy was an electrician by trade. Over the years he was self-employed, owning and operating his own company. He learned his electrical skills while he was serving in the military during World War II. Buddy's older brother, Henry Frank Jr. was also in the military. Henry survived WWII and the Korean War, but in 1978 Henry, Jr. was killed in a car accident. That left Buddy the sole caretaker of his elderly parents in the later years. Henry, Sr. and Ruby Geboe Frank had divorced when Buddy was a young man, so he was pulled in opposite directions when one or the other of them needed his assistance. Henry, Sr. always lived in Oklahoma, while Ruby lived in many different states around the country. In addition to caring for his parents, Buddy was also very diligent to come back to Oklahoma to visit the family, especially so, when someone was sick or injured. Buddy's father died in 1991 and he was laid to rest in Seminole County, Oklahoma. When his mother was no longer able to handle her own affairs, she had to be moved from Oklahoma to California for care. Buddy shouldered those responsibilities personally. When his mother passed away, she was laid to rest in the El Camino Memorial Park Cemetery...the same Cemetery where Buddy rests today. Resource: ancestry.com Findagrave.com

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