Frank T. Moy

Waltham – Mr. Frank T. Moy, of Waltham, died on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 with his family by his side. He was 93.

Frank was born in Chicago on December 14, 1920, a son of the late James and Jenny (Wong Shee) Moy. After high school he went to work as a tool & die designer in Detroit and attended school at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he obtained an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and a Masters in Business Administration.

Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Frank joined the United States Army Air Corps. Beginning in May, 1942 he spent the next fifteen months training at Ellington Field in Houston and at San Marcos Army Airfield, both in Texas. Frank attended service schools in navigation, meteorology, radio, maintenance, engineering, emergency procedures, map reading, high altitude flying and instrument reading.

In August, 1943 he was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant and assigned as a heavy bomber navigator, having qualified in both the B-17 "Flying Fortress" and the B-24 "Liberator" aircraft. His outfit was assigned to fly air combat missions out of North Africa to the Rome-Arno area of Italy and across the Balkans.

On his seventh combat mission his plane was shot down over the Mediterranean Sea and Frank was captured by enemy forces. He spent the next eighteen months in a German POW camp. After his liberation and return home at the end of 1945 Frank, like so many of his generation, remained humble about the sacrifices that he had made, things that he had done and what he'd accomplished during his time in the service.

Before the snow melted in Ann Arbor during the winter of 1946 Frank shook off the dust, straightened up and went right back to school at the University of Michigan. After his graduation, he moved to Boston. He spent the next forty years working as a systems analyst at the Raytheon Company in Waltham.

Frank loved to travel and in 1965 he made it his mission to see as many national parks as he could, never spending too much time at any particular park, it was always off to the next one. He enjoyed golfing and tried to play a round at least once a week. He was an avid Bridge player and introduced the game to his peers at the Mayor Stanley Senior Center in Waltham.

He leaves his children, Clifford Moy and his wife, Maryann, of Orlando, Florida, Steven Moy of Wakefield, Rhode Island and Lana Harrington and her husband, Frank III, of Stow; his grandchildren, Jonathan, Elizabeth and Christopher Moy and Frank IV, Gregory and Brian Harrington and his great-grandchildren, Trevor, Cameron, Faith, Jade, Eamon and Brandon.

Frank's beloved longtime companion, Josie C. Kato, died September 9, 2013.

Family and friends will honor and remember Frank's life by gathering to visit in The Joyce Funeral Home, 245 Main Street (Rte. 20), Waltham on Saturday, March 22nd from 10 to 11 a.m. followed by his Funeral Service at 11 a.m. Burial will follow in Mount Feake Cemetery, Waltham.

Memorial donations may be made to The Friends of the Waltham Senior Citizens, William F. Stanley Senior Center, 488 Main Street, Waltham MA 02452.