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    1. [OHHARRIS] FRYE,REV.GLENN MCKINLEY
    2. MACLAINE OF LOCHBUIE
    3. Formerly of Lansing: Age 99,died Wednesday ,April 17,1996.Born in Jewett,Ohio in 1896,he graduated from Katoka,,Missouri Highscholl 19??. He attended Iowa Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant ,IA and graduate from Harvard College,Cambridge MA in 1921 and Boston University School of Theology in 1923.Rev. Frye was a preacher most of his life giving his first sermon when he was eleven.He had student pastorates in New Hampshire during his time at Harvard and Boston University.Upon graduation he became assistant to the pastor in the downtown Methodist Church in Omaha,NE where he met his first wife Margaret Woodruff.From there they moved to Ithaca,where he was pastor from 1925 to 1930 from which they moved to the First Methodist Church in Lansing in 1936 he became the District superintendent for the Grand Traver?? District leaving there in 1938 to become the pastor of Peace Temple Benton Harbor,MI where he stayed until 1951. During the pastorate he received an honorary degree from Albion Clooege.For the next five years he served the Bishop before going to Calvary Church in Jackson IN in 1962 he moved to East Lansing where he assisted the minister in establishing the Methodist Church serving the students at Michigan State University.Following the death of his first wife,Rev.Frye married Lila Ruth Fuller in 1966.After his retirement he assisted the Minster at the Velda Rose United Methodist Church in Mesa,AZ,and served as an intrim pastor for Peoples Church in Kalkaska,MI.His pastorate was in the summer church outside Kalkaska during the peroid when they built thir Church. Rev.Frye served in the First World War Coastal Artillery attaining the rank of Second Lieutenant.Rev Frye was a world traveler in the days before jet travel. Among his travels where visits to Methodist missions in China just before the Communist take-over and in South America in the early fifties.He is survived by his wife Lila Frye; 4 children Dr.Glenn M.Frye Jr.;Dr.Harriet Elizabeth Frye Heath,;Leonard Fuller and Gerald Fuller; 14 grandchildren,; 13 great-grandchildren.; .Religious srvices will be conducted by Rev. Charles Fullmer at 10 am Monday April 22,1996 at Clarks Retirement Community ,1551 N Franklin S.E,Grand Rapids ,MI with grave side services at 12;30 pm in North Eagle Cemetry.In lieu of flowers,memorial contribution may be made to Albion College,ot to the Bear lAKE cHRISTIAN cHURCH,kALKASKA, IN memory of Glenn M. Frye. Arrangements by the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel.

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