Ottawa Co., OK. - Obit for Elsie FRY

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Obit for Elsie FRY

Elsie Fry
  The graveside service for Elsie Fry will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Memory Gardens Mortuary in Medford.
  Mrs. Fry, 72, of Sprague River, formerly of the Rogue Valley, died Monday (July 8, 2002) at her home of liver cancer.

  She was born July 5, 1930, in Picher, Okla., the oldest of four children born to Charles and Alice (Vestel) Minor. When she
  was 12 years old she traveled by train to Ashland. She attended and graduated from Rogue River Academy near Medford.
  On Aug. 22, 1948, she married Elbert Davis. They had four children. They were active in the Medford Seventh-day
  Adventist Church, Dorcas and the Pathfinder Club. She also worked as a cook at Rogue River Academy, where her children
  attended school.

  The family moved to Bonanza in 1966, bought a ranch, and helped start the Bonanza SDA Church, where she was an active
  member at the time of her death. After her husband’s death in 1985, she lived in Klamath Falls, Yucaipa, Springfield, Malin
  and Bonanza to be near her children and grandchildren.

  On May 16, 1997, she married Wesley Fry, who survives. They moved to Sprague River.

  Mrs. Fry taught classes in vegetarian cooking, baking, canning, quilting, gardening, nature, homemaking and Bible study.

  She was known for her hospitality, her good food and her chocolate chip cookies. Mrs. Fry also enjoyed reading, music and
  her dachshund, Bitty.

  Survivors, in addition to her husband, include two sons, Mike Davis and James Hastins; three daughters, Jenice Palmer, Pat
  Mendoza and Louise Davis; five stepchildren; two brothers, Ken and Frank Havekost; three sisters, Shirley Balmer, Opal
  DeAndra and Ruth Ringer; 12 grandchildren; 21 stepgrandchildren; 52 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

  Friends may pay their respects from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at Davenport’s Chapel of the Good Shepherd in Klamath Falls.