Frank D. Parent was a

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judge between 1930 and 1958. He coached President

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on championship football and baseball teams at Abilene High School, Kansas, between 1905 and 1909. The Frank D. Parent Elementary School in the

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, Unified School District was dedicated to him on May 15, 1960. Parent was born in Abilene, Kansas, and he attended the

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, where he was quarterback on a

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coached by

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, which won every game. He was a member of

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legal fraternity and

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social fraternity for 60 years. He was a county attorney in Kansas and co-owner of the '' Abilene Chronicle'' before moving to Inglewood in 1910, when he became an owner-partner of the Inglewood Realty Company, 1910–41; first president of the Inglewood Realty Board, 1922–24; charter board member of the Inglewood

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in 1922; and charter president of the Inglewood

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in 1930–31. In 1942 he was president of the Inglewood

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. He was a founder of the Peoples Federal Savings and Loan Association in 1923, shortly after he served on a coroner's jury that found that an "illegal masked and armed mob, presumably instigated and directed by members of the K.K.K.", caused the death of an Inglewood policeman during a 1922 raid by 50 to 200 men on a suspected bootlegger and his family. Parent was an early supporter of Mines Field, near Inglewood, as a site for a

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, and he persuaded the planners of the

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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. In 1942 the Inglewood unit of

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chose him as one of the first non-alcoholics to be affiliated with the organization. It described him as "the most humane and understanding judge in

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." As chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee, he helped bring

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and the first two

to Inglewood. Between 1950 and 1952 he was honorary chairman for a $2 million drive to establish

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. He died on June 20, 1960.

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Frank D. Parent Elementary School
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