Birth: 1935 Death: 2024 On June 19, 2024 Frank Laurance Estrada passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family. He was 88 years old. Frank was born on the family ranch in the mountains below Mt.
Madonna Park to Frank and Laura Estrada. He lived a life that only little boys dream of. He learned at an early age how to hunt, fish, tend to cattle, other farm animals and how to rope.
Frank started school in a one room schoolhouse, Hazel Dell School, which was on the ranch next to his house. After three years, his parents realized that Frank needed to go elsewhere for school, where he could focus on what was being taught and not on what was going on outside, so he was enrolled at Moreland Notre Dame School. He would often talk about those days of having nuns as teachers and walking across Main St.
to line up to go up the steps into St. Patrick’s Church to his youngest grandson, Zach, who too attended the school. Frank attended WHS and graduated in 1955.
Frank served his country for ten years in the National Guard. He worked for Granite Construction for many years. He was a master plumber as he was able to establish water systems all over the ranch capturing water that was coming out of the hills.
All of these water systems are still used today to supply water for cattle, wildlife and his home. Frank and Loretta married in 1961 and had two sons Grant and Greg. Frank taught his boys how to be good stewards of the land and to be respectful hunters and fishermen.
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