June - August 2024 Volume 25, Number 2
COMPLIMENTARY
Sponsored in part by Beaver County Office on Aging
Namath family name well known in Beaver County and beyond
The late Franklin Namath, Sr. of Chippewa Township, founder of Namath Insurance Advisors.
By Gina Mazza The Namath family name is well known in Beaver County and far beyond, in great part to the AFL and NFL football legend and Super Bowl MVP Joe Namath, 80, who was quarterback for the New York Jets and the Los Angeles Rams. A Beaver Falls native, “Broadway Joe” was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. Yet various other members of the local Namath family are just as loved and valued in Beaver County. “The Namath name in western Pennsylvania goes
beyond football,” comments Franklin L. Namath, Jr., 56, of Chippewa Township. “Joe is my dad’s little brother, and here in western Pennsylvania, my uncles all made names for themselves even before Joe ever threw a pass in the NFL.” Many local residents knew Frank’s father, Franklin L. Namath, Sr., of Chippewa Township, who founded Namath Insurance Advisors after working in the insurance industry since 1959. “My dad was laid off from the steel mill, and had
a wife—my mom—and two kids at home at that time,” Frank Jr. explains. “He started working for Monumental Life Insurance and earned his way up to being a manager. The next promotion to regional manager would have involved travel, and that wasn’t in his interest. So, when Nationwide recruited him in the late 1970s to help advise other agents how to sell variable life insurance, he started his own agency with Nationwide, which eventually became Namath Insurance Advisors.” The company takes a personalized approach to providing various types of insurance—including life, financial, Medicare, property and casualty, and business. Frank Jr. joined the company in 1995, alongside with his older brother, Michael Namath, 66, of Beaver Falls, who came on board in 1984. “Dad was diagnosed with dementia in April 2023, which progressed rapidly, but he continued to work up until that time at the age of 85.” Frank, Sr. passed on January 1, making this month the first Father’s Day without him. “The blessing is
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