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Frank died Jan. 25, 2010, at The Sylvestery, an assisted-living center in McLean, Va.

He was born in Beijing, China, where his father, John MacMurray 1902, was a U.S. diplomat. He attended Gilman School. At Princeton, he majored in history and graduating with honors, rowed on the varsity 150-pound crew, and was a member of the Student Council of the SPIA, and the Glee, German, and Cap and Gown clubs.

A 1943 graduate of Harvard Medical School, he served as an Air Force captain in the Pacific and as a medical examiner and officer-in-charge of a polio ward in Walter Reed General Hospital.

Frank and another doctor started a private practice, Foxhall Internists, in 1953. He was also a clinical professor at Georgetown Medical School and the private Madeira School in McLean. He was an officer of the American Clinical and Climatological Association and a regional governor of the American College of Physicians. His leisure interests included tennis, mountain backpacking, and camping with his family.

Frank’s wife, the former Rose Chatfield-Taylor, whom he married in 1941, predeceased him. He is survived by his sons, Frank Jr. and Worth; daughter Adelaide “Lolly” MacMurray-Cooper; a sister; four grandchildren; and three great-grandsons. His classmates offer them their sincere sympathies.