page_title: Frank Gross
section_title: Community service and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Frank Gross / Community service and awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Ontario Medal of Good Citizenship awarded to Frank Gross
context_page_description: Frank George Gross, OMC was a philanthropist awarded the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship one month after his death in 2006. He is the only Chatham-Kent resident to be recognized by the Government of Ontario for humanitarianism.
  For 50 years, he had been well known in the Chatham-Kent region as a life insurance underwriter, war veteran, freemason, cyclist and humanitarian mainly for the Canadian Cancer Society. Over the last 20 years of his life, he was recognized with nine local, provincial or national awards for humanitarian contributions.
context_section_description: Frank Gross donated his time generously, often spending hours visiting hospitalized neighbors, Masonic Lodge brothers, their family members or elderly friends unable to leave their homes. From 1994-2003, he was a volunteer driver for the Chatham-Kent branch of the Canadian Cancer Society, logging 243 trips and 33,824 miles or 56,374 km transporting a total of 409 patients in his own vehicle between Chatham and London or Windsor  hospitals.
  For these activities and his cycling on behalf of fund-raising for cancer research, Frank was recognized with the following local, provincial or national awards as reported by two Chatham newspapers:
  Kent County Senior Achievement Award, June 16, 1995, from Hon. Michael Harris, Premier of Ontario, July 24, 1995
  Ontario Senior Achievement Award, Parliament Buildings, Queen’s Park (Toronto), June 20, 1995, presented by Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Henry Jackman
  Canadian Red Cross Society, Distinguished Humanitarian Award, July, 1995
  Certificate of Appreciation, Royal Canadian Legion, Ontario Command, Branch 28-Chatham, 1998
  20 year Service Award, Canadian Cancer Society, October 29, 1999
  International Year of Volunteers, Government of Canada Medal, presented at Chatham-Kent Council Meeting, Chatham City Hall, December 17, 2001
  Ontario Volunteer Service Award, September 17, 2002, presented by Hon. Carl DeFaria, Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
  Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship (posthumous), Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, Parliament Buildings, Queen’s Park, Toronto, February 7, 2006, presented by Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, James Bartleman
  Memorial Banquet and Community Partner Award, Canadian Cancer Society, October 28, 2006
caption: Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship awarded posthumously to Frank Gross, February 7, 2006
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