Frank C. Griffith

Frank Colville Griffith passed away Tuesday, October 22, just a day shy of his 90th birthday. Born in Nashville, Tennessee on October 23, 1923, Frank spent his early years on his grandfather’s farm. He always loved to draw and began studying art during his teens under portraitist Evelyn King Miller. At age seventeen, he received national recognition for a painting entered in a competition sponsored by The American Youth Forum. He later majored in art at Middle Tennessee State University, but left college to serve in the Eighth Air Force in Europe during World War II. After completing his military service, Frank studied for five years at the Harris School of Advertising in Nashville, majoring in advertising illustration. At this school, Frank met and later married a fellow talented artist, Gloria Todd Griffith. The two moved to Atlanta to begin careers and raise three children.

During an advertising agency career spanning more than forty years, he created programs for Delta Airlines, the State of Georgia, and numerous clients in the fields of travel and finance. He acted as managing partner in the firm of Davis Newman Payne Griffith and was in charge of the advertising agency division of American Family Life Assurance Company (AFLAC) before retiring to his original calling as a portrait artist. Frank was a member of the Roswell Arts Alliance, the Atlanta Portrait Society and Roswell First Baptist Church.

Frank Griffith is survived by his son Todd Griffith, his daughters Marcia Griffith Banks and Sharon Griffith Hayes, their husbands, his seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The family will hold a visitation from 6:00-8:00 pm on Sunday, October 27 at the Roswell Funeral Home at 950 Mansell Road, Roswell, GA. The funeral will be in the Roswell Funeral Home Chapel on Monday, October 28 at 10:00 am.