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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