Early Years
Frank Francis Fasi was born on 27 August 1920 in Hartford, Connecticut, to Sicilian immigrants Carmelo and Josephine Lupo Fasi. Carmelo owned an ice business, and Frank began working for his father at age 11. An athletic youth, he finished 7th out of class of 476 in high school, and graduated from Trinity College where he had been a history major on an academic scholarship.
Fasi tried to join the United States Marine Corps after graduation from Trinity. The Marines turned him down because of his color blindness. Going back for a second try, he hired a friend to take the eye test for him, and Frank Fasi became a Marine. He served in the Pacific Theatre of World War II and was briefly stationed on Kauai. He was discharged as a First Lieutenant in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946, and immediately returned to Hawaii.
Fasi settled in Honolulu where he became an entrepreneur, opening his own contracting, building demolition and salvage company.
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