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    1. [TXREDRIV] Fryar and rambling.
    2. Jim Giddens
    3. I was looking at the War Dead from Red River County on the web-site. It is taken from the monument of the courthouse lawn and that is great. It list George and Harold Fryar dying in WW II. They are brothers. However Harold died in the Korean War. The monument has it wrong. Another brother, Harvey Fryar is in Regency Nursing Home and I visited with him often before my dad died. They were all from the Hopewell/Dimple area. I remember as a boy going to the funeral of Harold Fryar at Tuggle Springs Cemetery and the 21 gun salute. Harold was killed in what may have been the first major battle of the Korean War. Harold says their unit had their training cut short and they were rushed into combat and were over run by mass numbers. The family did not know any details for a few years. My mothers sister married Lewis Fryar and we went to the funeral with her. I think Lewis must have been the fourth brother. I remember Lewis leading music at the Hopewell Church where my Grandpa Watson was preaching when I was a boy. Lewis died at a early age also of a heart attack around 1954. I forget the exact year. Lewis Fryar's wife Inez did alterations in Marx Dry Good Store for years. I went to high school in Clarksville with two of their children (my cousins), Glen & Carolyn Fryar after they transferred from Dimple. I still have a picture of Glen from Dimple when he was in about the 3 grade. Also George died of a accident received while in training in 1941. I guess that is why the picture of him in the RR Co. WW II book shows him in civilian clothes. Jim Giddens Paris, Tx

    06/02/2003 05:22:07