Frank Franze, Class of 1950, and third wife, Nannette Couterie, will celebrate their first wedding anniversary Thursday, November 16.

Frank, who grew up in Four States, lives in Slidell, Louisiana. Previously, he resided in Jasper, Texas until after his second wife, Linda Corkern Franze, passed away in 2013.

His first wife, Earline Brownell Franze, from Lake Charles, Louisiana, passed away in 1981 after 27 years of marriage.

 

They had three children: Barbara Franze Bell, married to Steve Bell, whose children are Amanda, Stevie and Erin; Amanda Franze Calhoun, married to Pate Calhoun, whose children are Marley and Cooper; and Carol Franze Presbindowski and Brent Presbindowski, who survived Hurricane Katrina before becoming husband and wife and whose children are Jacob and Rebecca.

 

Frank, as most who read this blog know, was one of the chaffeurs, thanks to his father's automobiles, for the faceitiously named Gang That Terrorized Marion County, which included me and about a dozen other male teenagers.