Name: Bailey Frye
Last Residence:
46077 Zionsville, Boone, Indiana
Born: 30 Jan 1918
Died: 23 Apr 2008
State (Year) SSN issued:
Indiana (Before 1951)

Published: April 24, 2008 10:05 am

Bailey Frye

Services for Bailey Frye, 90, Logansport, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday in Kroeger Funeral Home.

He died at 12:25 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, 2008, in Logansport Memorial Hospital.

His given name was Samuel Bailey Frye. Born Jan. 30, 1918, in the family home in Burnettsville. He was the son of Quincy Virgil and Mary Elmira Wolfe Frye. He was married Dec. 31, 1941, in San Antonio, Texas, to Retta Mae Lee, who survives.

Mr. Frye was a 1935 graduate of the former Adams High School near Lockport. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army serving in World War II. He helped liberate the Philippines from Japan at the end of the war. After the war, he went to work as a salesman for the Logansport Metal Culvert Company, eventually serving as the sales manager before retiring in 1983. He sold many of the culvert pipes still serving under the Eisenhower Interstate system in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio.

He was a member of Calvary Presbyterian Church, Royal Center Masonic Lodge, Logansport Shrine Club, Cass County Ham Club and a charter member of the John Purdue Club. He also was a 32nd Degree Mason.

Also surviving are his son, Larry R. Frye and wife, Mary Lee, Zionsville; two grandchildren, Nelson B. Frye and wife, Rene, Zionsville, and Christina M. Smith and husband, Michael, Wentzville, Mo.; four great-grandchildren, Wesley R. and Haley A. Frye, and Insley L. and Carson M. Smith; his sister, Louise Reiff, Monticello; and sister-in-law, Ruby Frye, Washington.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Dick Frye, and brother-in-law, Robert Reiff.

The Rev. Doug Mankell will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Friends may call from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Frye Heritage Forest, c/o Walnut Council Foundation, Wright Forestry Center, 1007N 725W, West Lafayette IN 47906.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.kroegerfuneralhome.com