Frank Hays Waring's Obituary
Frank Hays Waring passed away on January 11 in Salisbury from cardiac arrest. He was 84. Mr. Waring was formerly Vice President of the Eastern Shore Railroad. He had been an officer of railroads on the Delmarva Peninsula since 1977 and was a founder of the Maryland & Delaware Railroad. He later held executive positions with the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad and was Vice President, Emons Transportation Group.
In the 1980s, he founded and became President of a transportation consulting firm in Salisbury, The Waring Group. Waring oversaw his company’s rapid growth and later sold it to the New York investment house of Printon, Kane. Born in Stamford, Ct., on May 9, 1925, Waring later moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he was a 1943 graduate of the prestigious Brooklyn Technical High School. He enlisted voluntarily in the U.S. Navy the same year and served his country proudly as a quartermaster during World War II and until six months after the war. He then enrolled at the University of Toledo, graduating in 1950 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He began his railroad career with the Pullman Co. and the Long Island Rail Road, later rising to executive ranks on railroads in the Midwest and New England, before starting a long career as a project manager for the global consulting firms, Coverdale & Colpitts and Stone & Webster. Work took him overseas, including to Peru, Russia, and England.
He specialized in transport marketing, operations, traffic, and economics. His professional papers were acquired by the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
He leaves his loving wife of 15 years, Judy Waring of Salisbury, and his children by a previous marriage, Edythe Brewer and John Waring, and grandchildren, Lisa Willardson, Eric Brewer, and Amy Brewer, as well as a great-grandson, Joel Willardson.
The funeral service is Saturday, January 23, at 1:00 p.m. at the Framptom Funeral Home, P.A. 216 N. Main Street, Federalsburg. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Inurnment of cremated remains immediately follows the service at Cokesbury Cemetery, close to the funeral home. A memorial dinner begins at 3:00 pm at Chef Fred’s Chesapeake Steakhouse, 1801 North Salisbury Blvd. (on U.S. Route 13), 410-742-8000, Salisbury, Md., 21801.
Notes of condolence may be sent to: Mrs. Judy Waring, 31888 Bonhill Drive, Salisbury, MD 21804-1467
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