Extracted from The Paris News (Paris, TX)
Monday, August 5, 2002

MRS. R. A. FRY IS CALLED BY DEATH

Mrs. R. A. Fry, resident of Paris 40 years, died after several months' illness, Wednesday at 9 p.m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Horace Wheeler on Bonham Road.

The funeral was set for 4 p.m. Thursday at Brown-Roden Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. J. Roby Ward of Coushatta, La., and the Rev. Raymond Smoot of Immanuel Baptist Church here, with burial at Evergreen Cemetery by Brown-Roden Funeral Home. Grandsons were named pallbearers.

She was born at Lufkin, daughter of Judge and Mrs. J. L. Sayers, her given name being Alice.

Surviving are these children: Tom Fry of Wichita Falls; S. G. Fry of Tyler, Mrs. Dora Heater of Dallas; Joe Fry, Mrs. Wheeler and Mrs. M. H. Julian of Paris; 20 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.