Nowata Star
126 E. Cherokee St.
Nowata, OK 74048
November 29, 2000
Permission for archiving obituaries given by Phillip Reid, Publisher

Graveside funeral services for Alma Elizabeth Coker Fry, 97, of Greensboro, North Carolina, who passed away on Tuesday, November 21, 2000 at Evergreens Nusing Center in Greensboro will be held Wednesday, November 29, at 2:00 p.m. at Nowata Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Benjamin Funeral Service in Nowata.

Alma was born at Coker Hills, Indian Territory on October 7, 1903 the daughter of William Walter and Amy Rowland Coker. She grew up east of Nowata in the Coker Hills area of Coody's Bluff. Alma received her education in the Riverside and Palestine Schools.

On December 24, 1921 she married Isaac Fry, Sr. at Nowata. She moved to Oregon in 1946 and returned to Nowata in 1952; she moved to Texas in 1979 and then to Greensboro, North Carolina in 1996. Mrs. Fry was a homemaker and a charter member of the First Church of God in Nowata and a proud Cherokee. She loved to crochet and made approximately 140 afghans. She also loved flowers.

Mrs. Fry's survivors include four sons: Joseph I Fry and his wife, Anna Marie of Greensboro, N.C.; Gerald D. Fry and his wife, Myrtle of Millersville, Maryland; Wayne E. Fry and his wife, Patricia of Nowata and Larry G. Fry and his wife, Gwynn of Grandbury, Texas; two daughters: Melva L. Wall and her husband, Dophus of Odessa, Texas and Deloris I. Nielson of Burleson, Texas a step-brother: Irman Coker of Pampas, Texas; two step-sisters: Caudia Johnson of Pima, Arizon and Violet Uttermark of Sebeca, Minnesota; thirteen grandchildren; twenty-two great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Isaac Fry, Sr., by one daughter, Nola Marie Fry and two sisters: Minnie May Coker Fry and Ella Hendrickson; by two half-sisters: Almeda Coker and Bessie Munsinger and two half-brothers: Victor and Harold Coker.

The family suggests that friends who wish may remember the Nowata Historical Society or the chariety of their choice.