Francis Frossard, 87, of Elmwood Park, a retired electrician and former local 134 union steward, passed away of natural causes at the University of Chicago Medical Center, Sunday, September 23, 2001. He is survived by his brother William, sister Emily, daughter Judge Margaret Frossard, a Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court, his son Major Patrick Frossard (USMC, Ret.), now with Racing Radios (NASCAR) and six grandchildren, Annie, Katie, Jackie, Katie, Shelagh and Collin. The oldest of 11 children, Mr. Frossard abandoned his dream of studying electronics when his father died and left school to help support his family. Even though he was not able to formally complete his studies, he taught himself electronics from books. During the second World War, as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army, he taught electronics to G.I.s. Following his discharge from the Army, he married his wife Lydia and went to work as an electrician for 37 years at Lyon & Healy in Chicago. He also worked at night as a camera man at Maywood, Hawthorn, and Sportsman’s Race Tracks where he helped develop a method of video taping horse races for subsequent broadcast on local news stations. For the past 12 years he has spent most of his time with his grandchildren teaching them the fundamentals of electronics by helping them make radios and video recording machines. Visitation Wednesday 4 to 8 p.m. at N.H. Scott & Hebblethwaite Funeral Home, 1240 Waukegan Road, Glenview (2 blks South of Lake Ave. on West side). Funeral Mass Thursday 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, corner of Church and Grove Sts., Glenview. Interment St. Joseph Cemetery, River Grove. In lieu of flowers memorial may be made to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, 75 Remittance Dr., Suite 1907, Chicago, IL 60675 or to New Yorks Bravest Memorial Fund, c/o Firehouse.com, 9658 Baltimore Ave., Suite 350, College Park, MD 29740. Funeral info. 847-998-1020.
