Leroy Wayne Fry
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Leroy Wayne Fry, age 86, of Du Quoin, Ill., formerly of Mt. Vernon, Centralia and Champaign, Ill., passed away on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 at 5:07 a.m. in Fair Acres Nursing Home, Du Quoin, Ill.
Mr. Fry was born on Sept. 21, 1924 in Mt. Vernon, Ill., a son to Alva Roy and Rutha May (Fry) Fry. On Nov. 13, 1943, he married Dolores Lee Funkhouser in Charleston, S.C., where he was proudly serving his country in the United States Navy as a medical technician, and she survives. He was a salesman and sales manager of Du Quoin Packing Company and had also worked as an account executive for Roth Packing, Waterloo, Iowa. He was a long-time member of First Baptist Church, Du Quoin, Ill., where he served his Lord in several capacities, the last as a teacher of the Ruth Sunshine Class. He was also a member of the Kiwanis, Du Quoin American Legion, Marshall Browning Hospital Auxillary and a volunteer for the Du Quoin Food Pantry. He loved woodworking, golf, walking, calligraphy, auctions and flea markets and his church.
Survivors include his wife, Dolores Fry of Du Quoin, Ill.; two daughters, Lynette Louise "Lyn" Roof of Springfield, Ill. and Deborah Gail Bunton of Du Quoin, Ill.; three grandsons, Christopher Wayne Bunton, Bradd Aaron Roof and Dennis Bunton (fiancée, Missy Watts and her children, Zack, Logan and Raegan); three great-grandchildren, Brittany, Michele and Brooklyn; two brothers Kenneth Fry of Mt. Vernon, Ill. and Onis Roy Fry (life partner, Wally) of Miami Beach, Fla. and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a son-in-law, Michael Bunton; four sisters, Dorothy Smith, Mildred Woods, Gladys Derry and Evelyn Highsmith and one brother, Donald Fry in infancy.
Mr. Fry's request was to be cremated. No funeral service was held.
Friends called at Pyatt Funeral Home, Du Quoin, Ill. on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010 from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Memorial donations may be made to the First Baptist Church, Du Quoin, Ill. or American Heart Association.
For more information or to sign an online guest register, please visit www.pyattfuneralhome.com.