Frank Cody Jr.

It all started when Frank was a boy – he was always taking radios apart and putting them back in working order. He said he always knew he wanted to be an engineer. In 1947 he graduated from St. Matthews High School in Flint, Michigan. He attended Valparaiso Technical Institute in Valparaiso, Indiana for two years, then went into the Army and served in the Korean war for two years.

He married his first wife, Marge, in 1952, had three sons and found work (usually three jobs at a time) at a radio station as the night engineer and even had some disc jockey time. He then found work at Chrysler Missile in the aerospace industry and he and his team worked on the first Jupiter missiles flown into space in the early 1950’s. In 1959 he and his family then moved to California and began work at Lockheed, another aerospace development company.

In 1968 he married Nona and raised her two children, Michelle and Dave, as his own adding this new responsibility to his own three sons.

Frank began his own company in 1971 and continued there until his sons Bruce and Scott took over in 1989 so he could begin another dream of his – building his own homes and drawing house plans for others.

Throughout all of the 42 years they spent together he continued his dreams and he accepted Nona’s love of owning and raising horses.

Frank will be missed by his wife, Nona and his children: Frank III, Bruce, Scott, Michelle and Dave. He is also survived by 12 grand-children and 13 great-grandchildren.

We all believe he has had a happy, satisfied, and exciting life.