Frank Gage was born and raised in southern California. He lived with his mother Rosemary and Father Francis, his adopted sister Penny and great grandmother Ruby. He graduated from Baldwin Park high school in 1968 where he met the love of his life, Judith Lathrop. He married her in August of 1969.  

Frank went into the service right after school, eager to serve his country. He spent six years in the Army travelling to Vietnam and Germany. He moved to Sitka, Alaska with Judith where he worked in a pulp mill and raised his two sons, Matthew and Daniel. In 1980, Frank and family moved to Kenai and he got a job working on the North Slope as a heavy duty mechanic.

Frank and Judith were called to do the Lord’s work as missionaries in Reynosa, Mexico Calvary Commission converting prisoners into pastors.

A year later Frank moved to his family to Seward, Alaska where Frank worked as a correctional officer in Spring Creek Correctional Facility. Later, he moved to Fairbanks, earned his Bachelor's of Social Work and served his community as a social worker in the village of Kotzebue for seven years and, later, in Fairbanks for three years until the complications of frontotemporal dementia made it impossible to continue.

He and his wife moved to North Pole to do more emergency foster care.

Francis L Gage is survived by his wife Judith, his sister Penny Harding; sons Matthew and Daniel Gage, adopted daughter Jamie Hallen-Gass; daughters-in-law Angel and Janalee ; grandchildren, Zybrylle, Jyzzyka, Branderlyn, Dillon and Avery. As well as, hundreds of foster children that thrived with his love and care. 

In addition to ministry and a heart for serving the Lord and his community, Frank was an avid lover of music with great passion and talent for photography.