Jr., D.D., died of a stroke Tuesday, December 12,

Jr., D.D., died of a stroke Tuesday, December 12, 2006 in Alexandria, Virginia. The son of John R. Frizzell and Hazel Lockwood Frizzell, he was bom in New York City on November 18, 1920. He spent his early childhood in South Norwalk, Connecticut. In 1927 he came to Charlottesville when the family business, Henderson & Irving, moved its factory to Monticello Avenue in the Belmont section of the city.

He attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria and entered the University of Virginia in the fall of 1940. In 1942 he volunteered for the US Army Air Corp and served throughout the war in the Atlantic theater. In January, 1943 he married Sarah Sergeant Buford of Charlottesville. After the war, he joined Henderson & Irving where he worked until 1950 when he left to attend the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. He was ordained a Deacon in the Diocese of Virginia in 1954 and began his parish ministry at Trinity Episcopal Church in Washington, Virginia.

He was ordained a priest in 1955 and in 1958 was called to be Rector of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Annandale, Virginia where he served for 28 years. Dining his 32 years in the Diocese of Virginia he served on the Executive Board, the Standing Committee, the Resolutions Committee, the Constitution and Canons Committee, and the Budget Committee. He was the Chairman of the Commission on Human Sexuality, Dean of Region VIII, and Chairman of the Nominating Committee for election of a Bishop Coadjutor. He presented Alyson Cheek as one of the first women to be ordained in the Episcopal Church.

In 1986, he left St. Alban’s to become the Executive Officer of the Diocese of Washington at the request of his classmate from the seminary, John Walker, who had been elected Bishop of the Diocese. In 1992, he retired from active service but remained involved in the Diocese of Washington as the