Frank T. Hurley
(1898-1966)

Died aged c. 68

Frank T. Hurley was born August 16, 1898 on the Sioux Indian Reservation at Fort Peck, Montana and graduated from Gonzaga College in 1917. He spent World Wars I and II on the General Staff of the U.S. Army and in 1944, was assigned to General Dwight Eisenhower’s Supreme Headquarters in Europe. He retired because of disabilities in late 1945, and moved to Pass-a-Grille Beach. In 1948 he formed Frank T. Hurley Associates, Inc., Realtors. He became director of the St. Petersburg Board of Realtors, president and lifetime director of the Gulf Beach-Seminole Board of Realtors, president of the Gulf Coast Mortgage Company, and served on the boards of private and civic organizations. From 1957 to 1965 Hurley headed the Long Key Sewer District, which consolidated Long Key’s four small towns—Pass-a-Grille Beach, Don Ce-Sar Place, Belle Vista Beach and St. Petersburg Beach—into present-day St. Petersburg Beach (now named St. Pete Beach). Frank T. Hurley died March 9, 1966.

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