Francis M. {Frank} Worden was born in Oklahoma in 1930. He migrated to Tucson, Arizona, as a youngster with his family for the health of his mother.
Growing up he became an avid student of the history of Arizona and America, especially the Civil War and the Western movement.
He served seventeen and a half years in the National Guard of Arizona and Army Reserve, honorably discharged as a Captain.
Frank has a deep admiration and love for his ancestors and the people who through courage, resourcefulness and hard work settled and developed this great nation.
He lives in Tucson with his wife Beverly, is the father of five sons, a daughter, twelve grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
He owns a small business, race horses, is an outdoors-man and gun collector.