Frank B. Mooers

Feb. 10, 1912 - Dec. 18, 2004

Frank B. Mooers died Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004, at Carolina Meadows Health Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was born Feb. 10, 1912, in Montevideo, Minn., and raised mainly in Minneapolis and briefly in Long Beach, Calif.

While attending high school in Minneapolis, he was elected class president and was a founder of a fraternity, Chi Beta Kappa, which became a lifelong attachment. Following the move of his parents to Baltimore, he attended Washington & Lee College, graduating after three years in 1933. After marrying Helen Wakefield Miner in 1934 and living in Middletown, Md., they moved to Minneapolis in 1936 to rejoin a family creamery business. Subsequently, he worked for the Minneapolis Gas Co. and then the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) Co. in St. Paul, beginning in 1942. He joined the National Advertising Co., a 3M subsidiary, in 1947 and moved to Westminster, Md. He served National Advertising as the director of operations. Subsequently, he moved with the headquarters of National Advertising to Waukesha in 1949, and then LaGrange and Hinsdale, Ill., in 1955.

In 1975, he retired and moved to Chapel Hill, where he was active in community activities, especially with initiating elder learning programs at Duke University and the University of North Carolina. He was an active member of the Chapel of the Cross and active in the stewardship of Carolina Meadows since 1989.

He was predeceased by his wife, Helen, in 1995.

He is survived by one daughter, Cynthia Marshall (Charles) of Silver City, N.M.; two sons, Yale of Candler, N.C., and Christopher (Elizabeth) of Coconut Grove, Fla.; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Arrangements were handled by Capital Funeral Home and Cremation Society of the Carolinas, (919) 571-3300.