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    1. [ILJEFFER] FRY OBIT
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    3. Leroy Wayne Fry, 86, of DuQuoin and formerly of Mt. Vernon, Centralia and Champaign, passed away on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010, at 5:07 a.m. in Fair Acres Nursing Home, DuQuoin. Mr. Fry was born on Sept. 21, 1924, in Mt. Vernon, 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 DuQuoin Packing Company and had also worked as an account executive for Roth Packing, Waterloo, Iowa. He was a long-time member of the First Baptist Church, DuQuoin, 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, DuQuoin American Legion, Marshall Browning Hospital Auxillary and a volunteer for the DuQuoin Food Pantry. He loved woodworking, golf, walking, calligraphy, auctions and flea markets and his church. Survivors include his wife, Dolores Fry of DuQuoin; two daughters, Lynette Louise "Lyn" Roof of Springfield and Deborah Gail Bunton of DuQuoin; 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 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 will be held. Friends may call at Pyatt Funeral Home, DuQuoin on Monday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the First Baptist Church, DuQuoin, or the American Heart Association. For more information or to sign an online guest register, please visit www.pyattfuneralhome.com.

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