Kay County OK Obit for: Sherman Neal "Sherm" Fry

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Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com, Kay Co. Coordinator
Date submitted: 12/12/2002 
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Sherman 'Sherm' Fry

Sherman Neal "Sherm" Fry, 51, Ponca City, died Saturday, Aug. 3, 2002, at 
Presbyterian Hospital in Oklahoma City.

Funeral service will be today at 2 p.m. in the chapel of the Trout Funeral Home, 
Ponca City, with Rev. Ed Coy Light, pastor, Grace United Methodist Church, 
Oklahoma City, officiating. 

Burial will follow in Resthaven Memorial Park Cemetery, Ponca City, with members 
of Troop 5, Boy Scouts of America, rendering honors. 

Fry was born Feb. 15, 1951, in Vinita, the son of Charles Herbert and Esther 
Gertrude Dawson Fry. 

He attended schools at Pryor graduating from high school there in 1969. 

He attended the University of Central Oklahoma, Rose State College, and the 
Northern Oklahoma College where he earned an associates degree. 

In 1990 he earned a bachelor of science in mechanized agriculture from Oklahoma 
State University. 

Prior to his retirement due to ill health, he worked as a purchasing agent for 
an electronics company. 

On Aug. 9, 1980, he and the former Kathy Irene Godsey were married in Ponca 
City. 

Fry was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church and had served as a 
cubmaster for Cub Scout Pack 17 and at the time of his death was an assistant 
scoutmaster with Boy Scout Troop 5. Additionally he had earned the B.S.A. 
Woodbadge. 

He held amateur radio call sign KI5IF and was a member of the Kay County Amateur 
Radio Club. 

His hobbies included scouting activities with his boys, amateur radio, 
astronomy, genealogy, storm spotting and gardening. Additionally, he had served 
as a Boy Scout merit badge counselor. 

He was preceded in death by his parents. 

Surviving are his wife of the home; two sons, Bill Charles Fry and John Edward 
Fry, both of the home; a daughter, Abby Lynn Fry of the home; a brother, John 
Charles Fry, Ponca City; and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews. 

Casketbearers will be Fred Spellman, Bill Schula, Steve Connelly, Tom Wolf, 
Peter Hay and Devon Lechtenberg. Honorary casketbearers will be Edward 
Covington, Bill Johnson, Mike Collins, Matt Fry, Dennis Long and Jarred Fry. All 
scouters attending the service are asked if possible to please wear their 
uniforms. 

Memorials may be made to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, for leukemia 
research, 825 N.E. 13th, Oklahoma City, OK 73104 or to Boy Scout Troop 5, in 
care of Mike Gray, 403 Wren Place, Ponca City, OK 74601. 
The family will be at 2105 Kyme, Ponca City.

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