Francis Stephen "Polans" "Frank" Tomah, Sr. was born on August 6, 1935, at home in Indian Township to Christine Mitchell and Newell "Junco" Tomah. Frank died on August 8, 2025, at a hospital in Bangor, Maine, two days after his 90th birthday. In between, he lived!!! He was predeceased by his siblings John, Verna, and Alvera, and has been survived by brother Newell "Qos" Tomah. He left school after eighth grade and went to work at logging in the woods with his grandfather Francis Xavier Tomah around Ayers Junction, Pembroke, Maine. At 17, he took the train to Bangor and joined the U.S. Army, serving honorably his three years at Fort Dix, N.J., helping to man "the ring of fire" during the Korean conflict. He married Joan Howlett, and had sons Francis "Steve" and Jeff Tomah, with whom he lived in Bayonne, N.J. until he returned to Sipayik some years later. Although Frank enjoyed the city life and missed his children, he had missed his Passamaquoddy homelands, waters, and ways. Back around Pleasant Point, he met and married Frances Ferguson Conlin, already mother of five, with whom he had two sons and two daughters: Lewis and Francis "Franko" Tomah, Christine Pace, and Mali Tomah-Pride. They lived at Pleasant Point for some years, then moved to Indian Township, where there was more land and opportunity to build a home with space around it, and to live more like the older ways, without plumbing or electricity, while hunting, fishing, trapping, and snaring for sustenance. He built a camp and a house at Second Huntley Brook, from which he and Lane Nicholas operated a logging business for some years. After leaving there, he went back to Pleasant Point and had a son, Rodney Sockabasin, with Mae Sockabasin. Upon returning to Indian Township, he and Frances raised their children on Peter Dana Point, where they lived and gardened for many years. He worked at the Georgia Pacific pulp and paper mill in Baileyville for a good deal of that time. In their seventies, with their own hands and family help, Frank and Frances built a one room cabin on Kennebasis Road along the flowage, where they rediscovered the joys of gardening, and continued to cook and heat with their wood stove. Frank, to the shock of all who had ever truly known him, discovered the joy of watching and feeding deer, not just killing and eating them. Until his last few days, he greeted the morning scenes of wildlife and wild and domestic growth with awe and new appreciation. Frank hunted. He was, at heart, a hunter. He was proud of his skills, his weapons, the strategies he had learned from his elders, and had honed to pass along to his children. He was generally an accurate shot, often stopping by Percy Bishop's store on the way out for one shell, and coming home with a deer. Deer was a staple when living at Sipayik - moose at Motahkmikuk. Frank struggled, and shared his pain, finally finding fellowship, understanding, and status with Bill W. and friends in many rooms in Washington and Charlotte counties; in them he nurtured sobriety and developed community and close friendships, many of which lasted the balance of his and their lives. Frank lived life on his own terms throughout his days, and enjoyed enduring support from his wife Frances, as well as much support from different family members over his years. He leaves his wife, Frances Tomah; his children and step-children Steve Tomah, Marta, Tom (Charlotte), and Jaime Conlin, Jeff Tomah (Andrea), Bruce (Rie), and Alice Conlin, Lew and Franko Tomah, Christine Pace (Keith), Mali Tomah-Pride (Rayburn), and Rodney Sockabasin (Magen); grandchildren David, Chris, Kerry, Eric, Sarah, Morgan, Aedan, Nipawset, Jacob, Ryan, Malsom, Monique, Sarah, Max, Ellery, Lucius, Isis, Aria, Quinn, Raegan, and Kairo. The family welcomes you to share your memories and stories, or silence, at The Last Resort, his home, at 135 Kennebasis Road, Indian Township, Maine between noon on Tuesday August 12th and 10:00 Wednesday August 13th. A Catholic Mass will be officiated by Father Roland Berngeh Njoyir at St. Ann Church on Indian Township at 11:00 am on Wednesday August 13, 2025. A community meal will be shared at the Parish Hall/Community Center beside the church after the mass. All are welcome to come down to 135 Kennebasis after the meal to continue celebrating his life. His remains will dance in the wind at another time.