Francis Zappa
Francis Zappa (Partinico, Sicily, May 7 1905 - April 7, 1973) was the father of Frank Zappa.
He was the first son of Vincenzo Zappa (1876) and Rosaria di Lorenzo (1874). He married twice. His first marriage bore him a daughter: Ann Zappa. Next he married Rose Marie Colimore and received three sons (Frank Zappa, Bobby Zappa and Carl Zappa) and one daughter (Candy Zappa).
Francis Zappa, whose musical ability extended to playing "strolling crooner" guitar, was a scientist with a degree from the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and worked at various times as an analyst, engineer and metallurgist for the Lockheed and Convair aircraft corporations. Zappa Snr's occupation required the family to move to Florida in 1944 and back to Maryland in 1946, to Edgewood beside the Aberdeen Proving Ground. His father was then employed at the Naval Research Center & School in Monterey in 1951 and the family, Frank senior, his wife Rose, Frank junior and brothers Bobby & Carl and sister 'Candy', relocated to Pacific Grove, Monterey.
He can be seen on the cover of We're Only In It For The Money, on the far left, above a skull and below the first Zappa dummy from the left.
Author of the book "CHANCES: And How to Take Them"; Art-Craft, 1966.[1]
Zappa dedicated a chapter of The Real Frank Zappa Book to him.
