Frank Llewellyn Stork

friends. His social schedule was full and he leaves many friends behind. He was always

ready with a helping hand.

He was very proud of being a founding member of the Kinross Swimming and

Lifesaving Club in Colombo, Ceylon. He left Ceylon to see the world with the merchant

marine when he was 18, got his US citizenship by serving in Korea during the Korean

War, settled in the US and brought many members of his family over to the States. He

had renewed his passport with the intention of returning to visit family, friends, and

places in Sri Lanka in 2020 but the pandemic intervened.

He loved all things to do with water (except the frozen kind) and was an avid sailor and

fisherman. His family spent many days camping and fishing from various boats on the

Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and Delta and then transitioned to sailing in San

Francisco Bay, camping on Angel Island and fishing in the bay. He would never take his

25 ft. sailboat out too far past the potato patch, but loved sailing out into the ocean on

friend’s sailboats.

All his life, he worked and voted for the cause of equality and diversity. After moving to

Sacramento in 1963, he co-founded the River Park Cosmopolitan Club (with Beverly

Stork) to bring families of color into the neighborhood. In it

were doctors, college professors, a couple of Sacramento Bee reporters and about

10-20 other residents of the Park. He was very proud to document the Cesar Chavez

farmworker march to the Capitol as a Sacramento Bee press photographer. He was

always looking for ways he could promote equality and diversity.

He valued education and earned a BA in Journalism from San Francisco State at a time

when that was not the normal path into the field. He was a lifelong learner, keeping up

with all technological developments, especially in photography and photo editing, and

he loved everything Apple. He was a longtime member of MacNexus, Sacramento’s

Apple Technology User Group. He was a longtime member of The Renaissance Society

at Sacramento State, attending a full slate of classes every Friday (no charge when you

turn 90!!!). His interests were eclectic: local history, philosophy, politics, meditation,

yoga, computers, and especially art. There was always at least one book at his

bedside, often a murder mystery!

He loved photography, and it was both his profession and his passion. He worked for

the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner, a couple of the wire services at the

California State Capitol, and retired from the Sacramento Bee after many years there.

He loved photographing the Sandhill Cranes at the Cosumnes River Preserve and

spent many years working as a volunteer there. He was certified to use a chainsaw to

clear brush in the preserve in his late 80s. His last photos were taken at the Preserve

just a few days before he died.

Pre-pandemic, for 31 years, he was at his gym, the Capitol Athletic Club, at least four

days a week and a member of a large yoga social group. That was the thing he missed

the most the past couple of years.

He was most excited lately about the addition of his first grandchild to the family.

He will be missed by his kids Sylvia, Kent, and NJ; his

granddaughter Sierra; his nieces and nephew Jennifer Morgan, Ralph (Tony), and Veronica; his wonderful friends Richard (Dick) Gilmore, Leilani Yang,

Patricia Beach Smith, and Kathy Stork; his late-life soulmate

Harlene Adams; and many, many others.

Photo by Dick Gilmore. Frank Stork at the Phil and Marilyn Isenberg Sandhill Crane

Reserve in Woodbridge CA, October 10, 2021.

You know he would prefer that you save your money. If you want to make a donation in

his memory, please make it to one of his favorite causes, either the Cosumnes River

Preserve or the New Dems Action Fund.