Frank Wilson Price Jr., of Lexington, Virginia, died at his home on Friday, June 29, 2012, at the age of 85.

He was born on April 24, 1927, in Mokpo, Korea, the son of Dr. Frank W. Price Sr. and Essie Ott McClure Price, who were for many years missionaries in China.

His birth occurred while his parents sought temporary refuge in Korea during a period of civil war in China. After early schooling in China, Price was graduated from Yale University in 1949 and the University of Virginia Medical School in 1953.

He served in the United States Army Medical Corps from 1953 to 1958. After a period of general practice in California, he undertook specialty training in pediatrics at Charlotte Memorial Hospital, North Carolina, during 1967 to 1969. Thereafter, until his retirement in 1992, he was a public health physician with the Virginia State Health Department, first as a health director and then as a pediatric clinician in the Central Shenandoah Health District. He was certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

He was a past member of the Virginia Public Health Association, the Virginia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Medical Society of Virginia, and the Rockbridge County Medical Society, in which he served as Secretary- Treasurer for eight years.

Dr. Price was preceded in death by his parents and his only sister, Mary Virginia Price Miller, of Orlando, Florida.

He is survived by his wife, Marilyn West Price, of Lexington, Va.; daughters, Terry P. Mason and Barbara P. Roakes and husband, Eddie, both of Forest, Va.; sons, Richard H. Price, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Scott M. Price and wife, Karen, of Richmond, Va.; and four grandchildren, Emily, Houston, Chelsea, and Caroline.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 5, 2012, at Lexington Presbyterian Church with Dr. William Klein officiating. Interment will be private. There will be no visitation at the funeral home. The family suggests that memorials be designated for the Children's Medical Center, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 9013, Charlottesville, VA 22907-6105, or to the Rockbridge Area Free Clinic, 25 Northridge Lane, Lexington, VA 24450.

Arrangements by Harrison Funeral Home & Crematory, Lexington, VA.