Franklin Dempsey Myers

2 July 1921 - 1 April 1987

A graveside service for Franklin Myers of Fredericksburg, Va will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Sunset Memorial Gardens.

The family will receive friends from 7:30 to 9:00 o'clock tonight at Wheeler & Thompson Funeral Home.

Mr Myers, 65 died Wednesday, April 1, at Warsaw Health Care Center, Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia.

Franklin was born in Baltimore on July 2, 1921, when his parents, Judson and Ruby Myers, moved from the Fredericksburg Area around 1916 to become a structural iron worker in Baltimore. Franklin and his parents returned to the family's Flat Run, Orange County farm around 1940. After the war, Franklin became a structural iron worker in the Washington area. He helped build such structures as the Bay Bridge, the Wilson Bridge, Possum Point Power Plant, National Airport, Dullas Airport, North Anna Power Plant, the Greenbriar Nuclear Fallout shelter, and many of the high rise buildings in and around Washington DC. He retired due to a terrible fall in 1968 during the construction of the Morgantown Power Plant located on the Potomac in Southern Maryland.

He was a Army corporal during WWII, and was a member of the allied forces at Normandy, Northern France and Belgium, facts that his family never knew until after his death.

Frank was the widower of Mrs. Marion Haley Myers and is survived by two sons. Thomas Franklin Myers and Ronald Lee Myers; two sisters Mrs. Lillian Bendall Hlaston and Mrs Hilda Heisterhagen Botteon, both of Baltimore; and five grandchildren. He was preceeded in death by his parents, Mrs. Ruby Sale Myers and Judson Delaware Myers, and a sister, Mrs. Frances Myers Hines.

Frank suffered from a stroke that occurred when he was 59 that left his speech impaired.