Frank W. Flanner (December 5, 1854 – February 17, 1912) was an American mortician, woodcarver, philanthropist and humanitarian.

Upon the death of Henry Beeson Flanner in 1863, Frank, his mother and five siblings moved to Indianapolis, Indiana.

[1] Frank Flanner married Mary Ellen Hockett, a school teacher and actress, in Marion, Indiana in 1886.

[2][3] Despite his education as a Latin teacher, Flanner opened a funeral parlor in downtown Indianapolis and became Indiana's first licensed embalmer in 1881.

After Flanner's death in 1912,[6] it was renamed Flanner House, serving as an African-American community service center to promote social, moral and physical welfare through educational and self-help programs; this coincided with a change in leadership and goals.