Oxnard—Frosty Flakes, Ward Ryder Frost Junior, as my beautiful mother, Dolores Theresa McGurr, called him, arrived on this earth on April 15, 1926, the oldest son of Ward Ryder Frost Senior and Eveleen Alice Donohue Frost on Long Island, New York.
THE Frosts were financially secure during the Great Depression, as the Frost Family owned the Crystal Lake Hotel in Freeport, where he got his first job as a bellboy.
Frosty Flakes’ business acumen didn’t work out, as guests would offer to tip him, but he would decline, and one guest said he was nuts.
Young Ward matured, and his next job was sitting at the bar, drinking prune juice and ginger ale, and counting the amount of money the bartender would skim from the register.
If the bartender took more than 10 percent, he would tell his father, and he’d lose his job immediately.
Frosty Flakes excelled in high school, but didn’t show up for picture day often, which is interesting, since he was handsome.
He enrolled in the Navy during WWII, was stationed in Japan, and three days after the truce was signed, he was attacked by someone with a knife, screaming bonsai, and was shot, as…
