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Lester and Ida remained in their house and shop until nearly the end of their lives; and Lester became a successful seller of sports equipment to local high schools and colleges. Later they moved to Fir Hill Towers on the campus of the University of Akron, where they were close to tennis courts, and continued to play tennis into their 90s.

Lester and Ida's four children were Evelyn F. Fry; Robert L. Fry; Byron Ward Fry and the youngest, Shirley F. Fry. Byron continued to live in Akron, Ohio with his wife, Marjorie, while Robert moved to Houston, Texas and Shirley moved to Connecticut, then Florida.

Lester died xxx; Ida died yyy; and Byron died xxx.

J. Cleve Fry was the middle son of James Smith Fry to live to adulthood. I also recall visiting Cleve; but the memory is much less clear. Cleve's early personal and professional history is recorded, however, in Akron and Summit County Ohio: 1825-1928, Volume II (1928), Pages 628-32:

J. Cleve Fry, who has gained wide recognition as an able and successful real estate man, has handled a large volume of business during the thirteen years since he quit the educational field to enter upon his present line of effort, and is numbered among Akron's progressive and enterprising business men. He was born on his father's farm in Suffield township, Portage county, Ohio, on the 13th day of June, 1882, and is a son of James S. and Mary Ellen (Myers) Fry, the latter of whom was born in Summit county, Ohio. James S. Fry was born and reared on the same farm in Portage county, Ohio, which his father, Wierman N. Fry, purchased from William Penn.


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