Daughter of Lemuel & Esther R. Auten, 2nd wife of Chris Fry, married Aug 9, 1899.
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May 1952
Princeville Telephone
Funeral Services Are Held Wednesday fro Mrs. Maria Fry.
Mrs. Maria Fry, 85, passed away in the Proctor Endowment home in Peoria Monday morning following a protracted illness.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon in the Presbyterian church with Rev. Arnold Daizell officiating. Edward Auten at the organ accompanied by Mrs. Harold Bouton as she sang "Let Not Your Heart Br Troubled" as composition written by Edward Auten and "Abide With Me."
She was laid to rest in the Princeville cemetery. Pallbearers were Roy Gruner, David Stahl, Edwin Rice, Harvey Smith, Letcher Giffin and Walter Weiland.
Maria Emily, daughter of Lemuel and Ester Cutter Auten, was born February 8, 1867 on a farm near Princeville. She died May 5, 1952 in Procter home in Peoria at the age of 85.
Almost all of her years were lived in or near Princeville. She attended school at Akron townhouse school and was graduated from a Kindergarten Training school in Louisville KY., about 1896 or 1897.
She taught a few years preceding her marriage to Chris W. Fry at Monica August 9. 1889. She shared the life of her farmer husband until they retired and moved to Princeville, where they lived until his death in 1945. Shortly thereafter she became a resident of Proctor home.
To the Frys were born tow sons, Paul who died in early childhood and Charles, who survives her. Besides her son she id survived by four grandchildren and one great-grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. Laura Tambling of Glen Ridge, N. J., and Mrs. Stewart Campbell of Monica.
Her parents and only brother and three sisters preceded her in death.
Mrs. Fry was a member of the Princeville Presbyterian church, which she joined in childhood and in which she was active until the recent few years of her disability. She was also a loyal member of W.C.T.U.
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May 1952
Princeville Telephone
Funeral Services Are Held Wednesday fro Mrs. Maria Fry.
Mrs. Maria Fry, 85, passed away in the Proctor Endowment home in Peoria Monday morning following a protracted illness.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon in the Presbyterian church with Rev. Arnold Daizell officiating. Edward Auten at the organ accompanied by Mrs. Harold Bouton as she sang "Let Not Your Heart Br Troubled" as composition written by Edward Auten and "Abide With Me."
She was laid to rest in the Princeville cemetery. Pallbearers were Roy Gruner, David Stahl, Edwin Rice, Harvey Smith, Letcher Giffin and Walter Weiland.
Maria Emily, daughter of Lemuel and Ester Cutter Auten, was born February 8, 1867 on a farm near Princeville. She died May 5, 1952 in Procter home in Peoria at the age of 85.
Almost all of her years were lived in or near Princeville. She attended school at Akron townhouse school and was graduated from a Kindergarten Training school in Louisville KY., about 1896 or 1897.
She taught a few years preceding her marriage to Chris W. Fry at Monica August 9. 1889. She shared the life of her farmer husband until they retired and moved to Princeville, where they lived until his death in 1945. Shortly thereafter she became a resident of Proctor home.
To the Frys were born tow sons, Paul who died in early childhood and Charles, who survives her. Besides her son she id survived by four grandchildren and one great-grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. Laura Tambling of Glen Ridge, N. J., and Mrs. Stewart Campbell of Monica.
Her parents and only brother and three sisters preceded her in death.
Mrs. Fry was a member of the Princeville Presbyterian church, which she joined in childhood and in which she was active until the recent few years of her disability. She was also a loyal member of W.C.T.U.
Daughter of Lemuel & Esther R. Auten, 2nd wife of Chris Fry, married Aug 9, 1899.
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May 1952
Princeville Telephone
Funeral Services Are Held Wednesday fro Mrs. Maria Fry.
Mrs. Maria Fry, 85, passed away in the Proctor Endowment home in Peoria Monday morning following a protracted illness.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon in the Presbyterian church with Rev. Arnold Daizell officiating. Edward Auten at the organ accompanied by Mrs. Harold Bouton as she sang "Let Not Your Heart Br Troubled" as composition written by Edward Auten and "Abide With Me."
She was laid to rest in the Princeville cemetery. Pallbearers were Roy Gruner, David Stahl, Edwin Rice, Harvey Smith, Letcher Giffin and Walter Weiland.
Maria Emily, daughter of Lemuel and Ester Cutter Auten, was born February 8, 1867 on a farm near Princeville. She died May 5, 1952 in Procter home in Peoria at the age of 85.
Almost all of her years were lived in or near Princeville. She attended school at Akron townhouse school and was graduated from a Kindergarten Training school in Louisville KY., about 1896 or 1897.
She taught a few years preceding her marriage to Chris W. Fry at Monica August 9. 1889. She shared the life of her farmer husband until they retired and moved to Princeville, where they lived until his death in 1945. Shortly thereafter she became a resident of Proctor home.
To the Frys were born tow sons, Paul who died in early childhood and Charles, who survives her. Besides her son she id survived by four grandchildren and one great-grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. Laura Tambling of Glen Ridge, N. J., and Mrs. Stewart Campbell of Monica.
Her parents and only brother and three sisters preceded her in death.
Mrs. Fry was a member of the Princeville Presbyterian church, which she joined in childhood and in which she was active until the recent few years of her disability. She was also a loyal member of W.C.T.U.
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May 1952
Princeville Telephone
Funeral Services Are Held Wednesday fro Mrs. Maria Fry.
Mrs. Maria Fry, 85, passed away in the Proctor Endowment home in Peoria Monday morning following a protracted illness.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon in the Presbyterian church with Rev. Arnold Daizell officiating. Edward Auten at the organ accompanied by Mrs. Harold Bouton as she sang "Let Not Your Heart Br Troubled" as composition written by Edward Auten and "Abide With Me."
She was laid to rest in the Princeville cemetery. Pallbearers were Roy Gruner, David Stahl, Edwin Rice, Harvey Smith, Letcher Giffin and Walter Weiland.
Maria Emily, daughter of Lemuel and Ester Cutter Auten, was born February 8, 1867 on a farm near Princeville. She died May 5, 1952 in Procter home in Peoria at the age of 85.
Almost all of her years were lived in or near Princeville. She attended school at Akron townhouse school and was graduated from a Kindergarten Training school in Louisville KY., about 1896 or 1897.
She taught a few years preceding her marriage to Chris W. Fry at Monica August 9. 1889. She shared the life of her farmer husband until they retired and moved to Princeville, where they lived until his death in 1945. Shortly thereafter she became a resident of Proctor home.
To the Frys were born tow sons, Paul who died in early childhood and Charles, who survives her. Besides her son she id survived by four grandchildren and one great-grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. Laura Tambling of Glen Ridge, N. J., and Mrs. Stewart Campbell of Monica.
Her parents and only brother and three sisters preceded her in death.
Mrs. Fry was a member of the Princeville Presbyterian church, which she joined in childhood and in which she was active until the recent few years of her disability. She was also a loyal member of W.C.T.U.
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