Frank left Esperaza with his (then) wife Liz in 2019, deaf to our pleas to get them to stay-
they were a delight to be around and we shared many a meal, many an interesting conversation, many a merry evening.
Frank had the sweetest manners; we all know that Esperaza is the safest place one can imagine but he would insist on walking me home after many a riotous party. He and Liz were most kind to my appalling dog Lily too, knowing I was a vegetarian they'd keep bones for her. She adored Frank!
I visited them in the UK... here they are in Bexhill-on-Sea, where they'd relocated. Frank was a member of the yacht club and of course maintained his golf obsessions. He was well-known in Esperaza as the man who bought his wife a golf club he wanted for christmas. She didn't play.
Their divorce was a sadness but after 40-something years - and diverging interests - it arrived.
Liz rang me today with the news of his passing and instructed me to let his old friends know.
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