Frank Mittenzwei

It is with shattered hearts that we attempt to find words to remember the man who was the absolute best of us. We start by saying that Frank S. Mittenzwei was a good man. Is it easy to understand the depth of what this truly means to be a good man?

A devoted son, brother, godfather, uncle, cousin, nephew and friend. A gentleman, brilliant, humble and selfless. The term gentle giant describes our brother Frank to his core. He never veered from kindness and generosity in everything he did. He gave of himself what would take another three lifetimes to achieve. Our Frankie did it as easily as blinking, it wasn’t even a second thought, he was going to act, he was going to help, he was going to hold you up until you could stand on your own two feet, he just didn’t know another way to be.

Our parent’s first born, he was brimming with the purest power of their love for each other and the strength that their bond created, every inch of him was a testament to them. He was his parents’ son, that is where he began and where he ended, Frankie, Butch, their absolute best accomplishment. From this love, Frankie grew a heart that was completely pure and loyal. Everything he endeavored to do was for his family, their happiness and their needs - no matter how big or how small. Those impossibly strong shoulders carried our family through our entire life. What he gave us so freely will carry us for the rest of our days.

He is survived by his siblings, RoseMary, Veronica, Charlotte, Melissa and Thomas. He is reunited, in heaven, with his beloved parents, Frank and RoseMary and brother Michael and an army of loved ones waiting to carry him home.

A Brooklyn native, he attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Regis High School and Saint John’s University. Frank cultivated a career within the stock market arena and was licensed in many areas that made him an irreplaceable asset to the companies he worked for which included Fidelity Investments.

To watch him work was truly remarkable. One of the last chats with our father was about Frankie. We found ourselves listening to one of his work calls. The numbers and calculations he tackled with a pen and spiral notebook was jaw dropping. The call was one of the dozens of daily exchanges that started with, “Hey, Frank, sorry to bother you but can you help me with something?” We looked at Daddy and said , “Wow”. Daddy said, “He’s amazing. Amazing to hear him do that.”

Frank had many interests and talents. Yankees Yankees Yankees, all things sports, a talented golfer, dart player, poker player, bowler, as a younger man he loved horseback riding and he was a killer on the dance floor. Frank was also the king of trivia and a film buff of every genre but perhaps his biggest pastime was his role as our walking encyclopedia, a combination of Google, IMDB and Wikipedia rolled into one. We said, “askl Frankie”, before we would ever say “google it”.

The most unexpectedly unique person in our family. The breadth of topics he could speak on and was interested in was astonishing. If someone in his life brought up a topic he would take an immediate interest in it. He was open to learning about anything and everything, especially if it brought him closer to us. In no time at all he would bring us the gift of more, more cool things to know about the topic we originally shared with him.

We wish you comfort, Frankie, as you rest in the arms of our mother and in the company of our father. We will continue to turn to you, we will seek your comfort, we will ask for your help and know it will be given without question as you have so steadfastly done throughout our lives.

If we had the power to do so, the term gentle giant would be retired with your passing. There could never be another more suited for that title than you, Frank.

In lieu of flowers please consider making a donation to the fundraiser established to help his family with the personal and financial challenges they now face.

https://gofund.me/9e955dbd