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Dr. James Frangos and a framed collage recounting his longtime Dover optometry practice on display at Tasker Funeral Home in Dover on Friday. (Rochester Voice photo; Dr. Frangos/Courtesy)

DOVER - Family, friends and hundreds of longtime patients waited in line for hours on Friday afternoon to pay their respects to a longtime Dover eye doctor whose nearly 40-year practice stretched across the Greater Rochester area and beyond.

The visitation for James C. Frangos, O.D., 73, was held at Tasker Funeral Home on Central Avenue, where the line stretched from one of the home's parlors through extended hallways all the way to the front door.

Frangos, who attended Dover High and graduated from Berwick Academy, went on to graduate from UNH with a degree in Zoology before obtaining his doctorate from Pennsylvania College of Optometry in 1977.

In 1984 he opened his own practice in Dover on Broadway, later moving to its current location on Portland Avenue in 1994, which is where this writer first met him some 30 years ago.

According to his obituary, "interacting with his patients, many of whom he became friends with, was one of his greatest joys" and I can vouch for that.

When I told him I'd written a novel about the newspaper business called Freak the News he immediately said he wanted to buy a copy. I offered to give it to him for free, but he insisted on buying it.

At an appointment a year later he made it a point to say he'd read it while hiking out West and enjoyed reading it.

Soon after his obit was posted to The Rochester Voice Facebook page, tributes began pouring in.

"So sad," said Simone Dubay. "He was such a wonderful eye doctor, always so interesting to talk to!"

"So sad," echoed Gayle Whitman Fournier. "He was a great eye doctor."

Frangos, who continued to practice right up until his death, was an avid hiker and fly fisherman, climbing many peaks including the Matterhorn in France, the Grand Teton range in Wyoming, and all of New Hampshire's 4,000 footers, according to his obit published on July 20.

Members of his family include his wife of 38 years Peggy (Parkhurst) Frangos of Conway; three children Justin Hussey and his wife Julie of North Conway, Dr. Andrew Frangos and his wife Jennifer of Boston and Lilly Lirette and her husband Adam of Dover; three grandchildren Allie Hussey, Sawyer Hussey and Emma Frangos; his brother Dennis Frangos of Barrington and sister Paula Maskwa and her husband Paul of Somersworth; and many nieces and nephews.

Andrew Frangos will continue his father's practice on Portland Street.

The funeral will be Saturday July 23, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church 93 Locust St., Dover. Burial will follow in the Annunciation Cemetery.

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