Alexander Peterson Frick

December 7, 1951 — June 23, 2017

Alex Frick passed away on June 23, 2017 after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was at home and at peace, surrounded by the love of family and friends. He was born on December 7, 1951 to Archie Wilson Frick and Amy Louise Macdonald Frick in Bakersfield, CA. Archie Frick’s family had come from Iowa to the Central Valley and were early farmers in Kern County. Alex spent his first 15 years on the family farm with his brothers Peter, Lloyd, Quentin, and sister Kate. When Archie took an agricultural development job in Libya in 1967, the siblings were sent to boarding schools in several different countries. Alex was sent to Atlantic College in Wales. With his horizons broadened, his goal from then on would be to see the parts of the world he hadn’t yet seen. Returning to the US, he studied biology and math at MIT. After he earned his Masters in Economics at Berkeley in 1979, he was trying to decide whether to go back to farming or build a boat in order to sail around the world. Quite unexpectedly, he got a call with an offer to move to New York and work on Wall Street. Rising to that challenge, Alex participated in the development of financial instruments for risk management, particularly derivatives. After 13 years in NY, Tokyo, and London, he decided to move on. He worked with small start-up companies and sustainable development projects part of the time and devoted the rest of his time to seeing the world. At this stage of his life, he also found a new passion in driving race cars on the UK amateur circuit. He and his wife, the former Ann DeKalb, resettled in South Wales in the UK and travelled as much as they could. They rode motorcycles through West Africa, from London to Beijing along the old Silk Road, up to the northern tip of Alaska, from the west coast to the east in Canada, and several more trips through Quebec, Labrador, and Newfoundland. When Alex was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and two-wheels apiece were no longer suitable, he and Ann travelled with an off-road tear-drop trailer along the Continental Divide trail. After the economic crisis in 2008, Alex and Ann moved to Glen Ellen. While living in Berkeley decades earlier, they had ridden their motorcycles to Sonoma County on as many weekends as they could. After a life of moving almost every two years, they put down roots in a place where they had memories. Alex made a lot of friends and touched a lot of lives and was glad to be a part of this community. Alex was a loving and playful father and grandfather to step-daughter Shane Colleen Hallinan and her sons Tyrone Matthew and Daniel Malachi and to daughter Juliana Nicole Frick and her daughter Amalia Luma. They brought him enormous joy and warmed his heart. He is survived by Archie Frick; Peter, Lloyd, Quentin, and Kate Frick; Shane Hallinan and Juliana Frick and their children; and his loving wife, Ann DeKalb Frick. Alex was deeply troubled by the inequities of our healthcare system that made life so difficult for so many of his fellow cancer patients. He wanted healthcare to be better and more widely available, not less. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that we all do what we feel we can to achieve this goal for him. No Service

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Alexander Peterson Frick

December 7, 1951 — June 23, 2017

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