Fran Deken
Meritorious Service
Performance
Pioneer
Superior Performance
Veterans
USBC Superior Performance
Builder (1997)
Fran Deken was a collegiate and professional woman bowler who distinguished herself off the lanes as an extraordinary advocate for women's bowling. She spent more than three decades as tournament director for the former Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour, a member of the original PWBA board of directors and as a bowling newspaper publisher, freelance writer and bowling radio show hostess.