Frank Alexander Rhodes, Jr.

Frank Alexander Rhodes, Jr.

Frank Alexander Rhodes,

Jr. passed away peacefully

on August 11, 2009 at

his home in Newport

Beach at age 93. Born in

Montgomery, Alabama to

Frank and Ethel Rhodes in

1916, he graduated from the

University of Alabama in

Aeronautical Engineering

with honors and was a

member of Tau Beta Pi

honorary engineering society.

In 1936 he was recruited

by Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, California, where he

worked in engineering and management of building aircraft

before and during World War II. There he met his future

business partner, Gill B. Causey, with whom he formed a

building and development partnership in the mid 1940’s

and over the next 55 years built many diverse projects

including Crenshaw Medical Plaza, high rise apartments on

Wilshire Blvd, Glendale Fashion Center, Newport Center

Medical Plaza, the Granville luxury apartments, and the

Sand Canyon Medical Office Building. He shared his love

for skiing, riding horses, boating, tennis and flying with his

family and friends throughout his life.

He is survived and will be greatly missed by his beloved

wife of 43 years, Jane Cooper Rhodes, his sons Eugene

S. Rhodes and Loyd E. Wright III, his daughters Susan

Rhodes Matijasevic, Julie Wright Reilly, and Marily Wright

Anton, his 13 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren,

his brothers, William and Spears Rhodes of Montgomery,

Alabama, and his sister, Ethel Rhodes Hosmer of Carlsbad.

He was predeceased by his first wife, Marjorie Stockwell

Rhodes, in1962 and by their oldest son, Frank A. Rhodes

III in 1996.

Funeral services will be private. Donations in lieu of flowers

may be sent to “Las Madrinas” benefitting the Children’s

Hospital of Los Angeles, Dept 6778, Los Angeles, Ca.

90084-6778.