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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of John Eugene Fry of Naperville, who passed
4 away on May 8, 2010; and
 
5     WHEREAS, John Fry was a lifelong Naperville resident; he
6 graduated from Naperville High School, where he was a champion
7 Trombone player; he attended North Central College; and he sang
8 in a men's octet that toured the western United States; and
 
9     WHEREAS, He served as an Army medic in the Pacific Theater
10 during World War II and received a Bronze Star for his bravery;
11 after the war he married Laurabelle and they lived in Michigan
12 while he attended Cleary Business College; and
 
13     WHEREAS, He co-founded Fry Brothers Realty with his two
14 brothers in the mid-1950s; the company built more than 3,000
15 homes in the Naperville and Plainfield area; in the 1980s he
16 formed Fry Properties and went on to build the Tamarack Golf
17 Club and a subdivision with the same name; and
 
18     WHEREAS, Mr. Fry was a member of the Knox Presbyterian
19 Church in Naperville and was a former president of the
20 Naperville Council of Churches; in retirement he wrote a
21 collection of short stories from his youth; and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his wife, Laurabelle;
2 and
 
3     WHEREAS, John Fry is survived by his sons, Alan and Gordon;
4 his brother, Robert; his nine grandchildren; and his ten
5 great-grandchildren; therefore, be it
 
6     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
7 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
8 his family and friends, the passing of John Fry; and be it
9 further
 
10     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
11 presented to the family of John Fry as a symbol of our sincere
12 sympathy.