Frank D. Parent
Frank D. Parent was a
Parent was born in Abilene, Kansas, and he attended the University of Kansas, where he was quarterback on a team coached by Fielding H. Yost, which won every game. He was a member of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and Beta Theta Pi social fraternity for 60 years.[1]
He was a county attorney in Kansas and co-owner of the
He was a founder of the Peoples Federal Savings and Loan Association in 1923,
Parent was an early supporter of Mines Field, near Inglewood, as a site for a Los Angeles municipal airport, and he persuaded the planners of the National Air Races that the field would be the "best possible landing area" and they chose it for the 1928 event, which solidified public sentiment in favor of the location for the city's first airport.[3]
In 1942 the Inglewood unit of
He died on June 20, 1960.[1]