{"id":53876,"date":"2022-07-02T10:51:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T14:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=53876"},"modified":"2022-07-02T11:00:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T15:00:57","slug":"frank-manns-funeral-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/07\/frank-manns-funeral-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Mann&#8217;s Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/724942791?h=50631ae1b6&amp;title=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/724942791\">CPC Sunday Morning Worship<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user124639302\">Gary Brothers<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Southwest Florida community is coming together on Saturday to pay respects to Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann, who died on June 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mann was 80. He built a career out of serving others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The service for Mann will be held at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Fort Myers. The service can be streamed online on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covpcfm.com\/covenant\/\">church\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mann was a lifelong resident of Lee County and even graduated from Fort Myers High, where he was voted friendliest of his senior class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mann\u2019s career in public service began in 1974 when he was first elected to the Florida House of Representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After eight years there, he moved on to the Florida Senate where he served for four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He served a 1-year term on the Lee County Commission in 1993 when he was appointed by then-Gov. Lawton Chiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He returned to the County Commission in 2006 and continued to serve the people of Lee County for 15 years, attending the last meeting two weeks prior to his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was often known as \u201cFour to One Frank,\u201d and usually found himself on the opposite side of his fellow commissioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wanted residents of Lee County to enjoy the area as he once did when he was younger and was instrumental in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/2022\/06\/21\/lee-county-commissioners-rename-conservation-20-20-preserve-in-frank-manns-honor\/\">creation of a preserve<\/a>&nbsp;that would bear his name.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leegov.com\/parks\/preserves\/frankmann\">The Frank Mann Preserve<\/a>&nbsp;is located at 1699 Joel Boulevard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CPC Sunday Morning Worship from Gary Brothers on Vimeo. The Southwest Florida community is coming together on Saturday to pay respects to Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann, who died on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1404],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53878,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53876\/revisions\/53878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}