WINDSOR, VT
Frank V. Homer, 97, a resident of Windsor, and formerly from Ocala, Florida, passed away Friday, May 31st at Mt. Ascutney Hospital in Windsor, Vermont. He was born in 1915 in a log cabin beside the Waits River falls in Bradford, Vt., later graduating from Hempstead high school on Long Island, N.Y. In 1940 he married Frances J. Nelson and lived in the N. Y. C. area. He was a WWII veteran, serving with the U.S. Army Finance Corps in the Philippines. After the war they moved to Newtown, Connecticut where he worked as a cost accountant for Perkin-Elmer Corp. in Norwalk. He and his wife were also professional dog handlers and well known breeders of Bedlington Terriers and Miniature Pinschers, running a boarding and grooming kennel in Newtown. He was a mason, and a Past Worthy Patron of the Eastern Star in Connecticut.

After retiring from accounting 1979, they moved the kennel to Ocala, Fl. in 1980. After losing his wife in 1986, he sold the kennel. He later remarried Helen ( Kitty) Snyder, a respected artist, and moved to Sweetwater Oakes mobile park in Ocala. Frank enjoyed drawing, playing the organ, and golf. In July of 2012 he returned to Vermont and spent his last days at the Stoughton House in Windsor.

He is survived by his step-daughter Valerie Asensio of Dripping Springs, TX, his nephew John Hikory of Windsor, VT and several nieces in N.YC. He is preceded in death by both wives and all his siblings. He will be interred at the Vermont Veterans Cemetery in Randolph, VT at the convenience of his family. Donations in his honor may be made to Hospice.

The Knight Funeral Home in Windsor, VT is entrusted with the arrangements.