Frank L. Malosky volunteered as a Peace Corps construction teacher in West Africa a few years after he retired



Frank L. Malosky volunteered as a Peace Corps construction teacher in West Africa a few years after he retired

Flushing civic leader became Caseville mayor upon retiring
Frank L. Malosky, 76
FLINT
THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION
Thursday, April 07, 2005
By David Graham
dgraham@flintjournal.com • 810.766.6306

Frank L. Malosky didn't waste any time in his 76 years, going out of his way to serve his community in both Flushing and later Caseville after he retired.

A home builder and brick mason for 30 years, he served on the City Council in Flushing and also four terms as the mayor of Caseville. He built many homes and commercial buildings in the Flushing area and then volunteered as a Peace Corps construction teacher in West Africa a few years after he retired.

Malosky, 76, died at his Caseville home Monday after a long struggle with cancer. He lost a kidney to cancer in 1996, and it came back recently as lung cancer, said his wife, Stannette.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the St. Roch Catholic Church in Caseville. Arrangements are being handled by the Champagne Funeral Home there.

Malosky, who lived in Flushing from the mid-1950s until 1985, was a life member of the Flushing Lions Club and worked to establish a chapter in Liberia, where people were not accustomed to doing good deeds for strangers without compensation, Stannette said. He had Stannette bring over a suitcase of used eyeglasses donated by the Flushing Lions to distribute in Liberia, she said.

Aside from his numerous civic duties, Malosky was the kind of person who helped many people in the community.

One of his daughters, Suzanne Elwell, said he took in a young relative for four months who was having trouble at home and gave him a job in his construction business. The man is now a state police trooper in Indiana, she said.

He did much the same thing with a stranger in Flushing who was a "lost soul," she said.

"He gave him a job in his bowling alley and kept track of him for years," she said.

She said her father quit everything to help her in 1982 when she was diagnosed with leukemia.

"He dropped everything to help me for nine months battle the disease," she said. "He saved my life."

She said her father did the same kind of thing for her two sisters when they had problems.

Suzanne said he was a kind, generous person who could be relied on.

"If something needed being done, he did it," she said.

While living in Flushing, Malosky built and then owned and operated Flushing Lanes in downtown Flushing for several years before he sold the business. It is now known as Jack's Place.

He subdivided 40 acres on Flushing's east side as Malosky's Acres, where he built some of the homes there. He also built many homes in the Dalton subdivision.

After moving to Caseville in 1985, he served four terms as mayor of the town, where he played a key role in starting its downtown development authority. He also served on the Huron County Mental Health Board.

Malosky was a member of the St. Roch Catholic Church in Caseville, where he served as a past president of the parish council. He was an usher and eucharistic minister at the church. He was also active in the Knights of Columbus.

He was also an avid angler and hunter, making a hunting and fishing trip to Montana every year for more than 40 years. He also hunted and fished in Alaska.

Other survivors include daughters Diane Walker and Kathy Fargo; three stepchildren; four grandchildren; seven step-grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a brother, Felix; and two sisters, Ellie Bowles and Mary Danks.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Arlene, four brothers, three sisters and a grandchild.

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