April 26, 1951 – July 30, 2025
Throughout his long career as a therapist in California, Frank helped individuals, business clients, and members of families and organizations. He taught them how to discover and develop their hidden strengths, embrace their similarities and differences, and enrich their personal and professional relationships. Frank moved to Jacksonville, Oregon, in 2013 where he was involved in community organizations such as Celia’s House Hospice and the Britt Music & Arts Festival, and where he published A Field Guide to Humans, a book based on the Enneagram, a personality awareness system he used in all his consulting. His creative passion was writing poetry, which he posted alongside photographs by his partner, City Counselor Ken Gregg, for passersby to view in the front windows of the 1850s former saloon where he resided.
A private family service will be held at a later date.
Contributions in Frank’s name can be made to these charities:
Britt Classical Annual Fund
Southern Oregon Friends of Hospice
Asante Foundation Cancer Care
Re-membering
To those who have gone before me
To those who made a place for me to land
To those who surrounded me with love
I thank you for giving me a hand
As I stand in this stream before me
The one that carried you away
I know that I am to follow
I too will pass someday
A steward for these decades
Perhaps forgotten or living on
I take this moment in my hands
Knowing these precious days will be gone
Whatever we touch while passing through
Leaves changes yet unknown
The ripples of our words and acts
Give life to those to come
Frank De Luca, October 2015