Gail William Fry (1891-1939)

FRY, TROBAUGH, LINTON, ALDERMAN, BROWN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal May 8, 1939 (page 4)

Funeral Services Held Sunday for Gale W. Fry

The little church at Iowa Center was filled to capacity and hundreds stood on the lawn outside during the final funeral rites for Gail Fry, 49, son of a pioneer family of that community who had been killed by a bolt of lightning, at his farm home southwest of Nevada early Thursday evening.

Relatives, old time neighbors and friends of his boyhood days and neighbors during his more recent farm life, gathered there to pay final word of tribute and respect to him, as well as offer sympathy and condolence to the grieving family.

The funeral services were in charge of Rev. C. E. Lookingbill of Nevada and burial was in the family lot in Evergreen cemetery at Iowa Center.

Gail William Fry was a son of John and Elizabeth Fry and was born at Iowa Center, May 11, 1890.

He was united in marriage to Miss Ethel Trobaugh on January 5, 1910. To this union five children were born and they with the wife survive. The sons are Corliss, Dale, Basil and Robert and the one daughter Estelene.

He also leaves three brothers and four sisters. They are George of Nevada, Jim of Iowa Center and Warren of Tama and Myrtle Linton and Ethel Fry of Lebanan, Indiana, Mrs. Ida Alderman of Nevada and Mrs. Wilda Brown of Iowa Center.

Mr. Fry had engaged in farming since his marriage and more recently had been working on a farm three miles south and one west of Shipley.

He was an industrious man, respected by his neighbors and many friends and was a kid and loving husband and father.