In Memory of Frank B. Fleming

My father, Frank Fleming, was born 100 years ago today. He was a third generation pharmacist from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania and served as a US Army medical services admistrator in Liberia during World War II, a white officer in a largely African-American unit. He married my mother, Katherine Pie' after the war and managed Peoples Drug stores in Pennsylvania and Virginia. He died in 1962, age 56 and is buried in the Danville, Virginia National Cemetery. My mother is buried beside him.


[update:] My brother has a longer post about our father here.