Dr. Neil Frank 1931-2025

[srainhoutx]

Please join me in praying for Doc Neil and his wife Velma. Mrs Frank has been in hospice care and Neil is being move to hospice care to join her.

[biggerbyte]

Oh no. Are you saying they are both sick enough to be in hospice? God bless both of them.

[tireman4]

Oh no. Are you saying they are both sick enough to be in hospice? God bless both of them.

Yes

[srainhoutx]

Doc Neil passed away this morning surrounded by his praying family singing hymns and lying in bed with is loving wife of 73 year Velma. Neil Frank was 94 years old.

[tireman4]

He was an amazing man. I loved watching him in the 1970s when he was director of the NHC. When I was working at the Lubys on Waugh Drive, he would come in and have dinner with his wife between the 6 and 10 newscasts at KHOU. I wanted to talk to him then ( this was 1999), but I knew this was his downtime, so I always respected his privacy. He was kind to all those around him. We, in the weather world, shall miss him dearly. Steve and I spent many a conversation about what he did for tropical meteorology.

[MontgomeryCoWx]

Teared up reading this. RIP Doc!

[TxLady]

Dr. Neil and Dave Ward: 2 Houston Legends gone. RIP

[biggerbyte]

We are losing so many now. I suppose the season is upon us all as we continue to age. Knowing this, each passing continues to break the already broken heart.

Dr. Neil Frank, you and Harold Taft were the best I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. We are all sad to see you go.

RIP

[Ptarmigan]

Dr. Neil Frank is the GOAT of weatherman in Houston.

[txsnowmaker]

When the news of Dave Ward’s passing came about, I looked up several of the local tv news teams of my era growing up in Houston. Neil Frank was among them, and I was astonished to see he was already 94, but still here. With Neil’s passing, all the chief meteorologists at the major networks’ Houston affiliates from my years growing up in Houston have all passed - Neil, Ed Brandon, and Doug Johnson. They were all superb, and offered sound, level-headed guidance when Mother Nature brought us unsettled weather, though none were better than Dr. Frank for tropical weather. May they all rest in peace.

[don]

Dr. Neil Frank is a legend. We will miss him.

[Rip76]

RIP Dr. Neil.
He was a legend and a wonderful man.

[CrashTestDummy]

You will be missed, Dr. Frank!!

[DoctorMu]

Dr. Neil and Dave Ward: 2 Houston Legends gone. RIP

RIP Dr. Neil Frank. A giant in meteorology, as head of NHC and with KHOU.

Back when The Weather Channel was about weather, a visit from Neil Frank discussing the science was a blessing.

Dave Ward handing it off to Marvin Zindler...so iconic. Slime in the ice machine!

https://youtu.be/pLdzba8fXCo?si=nlhHYmOSkT_nDUau

[cperk]

Dr. Frank was the reason i got interested in tropical weather rest in peace he will be missed.