Letha Lamoine Fry

Letha Lamoine Fry, daughter of the late Nathan and Rose Ellen (Hammond) Middleton, was born on May 20, 1929 in Wright County, Missouri and departed this life on October 12, 2010 in the Autumn Oaks Caring Center in Mtn. Grove, Missouri, at 81 years of age.
Letha grew up and attended school in Wright County. At the age of fifteen, she had to quit school and move with her family to California and go to work to help support her family. In later years, she returned to school and received her G.E.D.
She was united in marriage to Wayne Fry on April 20, 1947 in Wright County. Three children were born to this union.
She was employed at the Brown shoe Company in Mtn. Grove for many years. She also owned and operated the Oasis Flower Shop and Jack & Jill Children’s Clothing Store. Letha was an excellent seamstress. She would work and come home and make dresses and clothes for her two daughters to wear the next day to school.
Letha and two of her sisters also owned and operated Kin Folks Restaurant in Mtn. Grove. Her pies were famous all over town.
She loved the Lord with all her heart and was saved and baptized at a young age and was a long time member of the Willow Springs Free Will Baptist Church.
Letha will be remembered as a loving and caring wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and friend. She dearly loved her family. Her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were the joy of her life. She spent many hours waiting up for them to return safely home.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by a daughter-in-law: Cynthia Fry; a great-grandson: Aden; two brothers: Ray Middleton and Charles Middleton; and two brothers-in-law: Jack Dale and Harold Lawson; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law: Philip and Dora Fry and Clotis and Nora Jane Barker.
She is survived by her husband of sixty-three years; Wayne Fry of their home; her son: Gary Fry of Mtn. Grove; her two daughters: Brenda Dean and her husband, Charles, of Mtn. Grove, and Cindy Kinnick and her husband, Randy, of Russellville, Arkansas; three sisters: Betty Dale, Audrey Lawson, both of Mtn. Grove, and Pat Evans and her husband, Jim, of Springfield, Missouri; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends who will sadly miss her.
Letha leaves behind a wonderful legacy for her family and all who knew her.


Funeral Services:
Thursday, October 14th at 2:00 PM in the First Freewill Baptist Church.
No Formal Visitation
Friends may call Wednesday, October 13, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM in the funeral home.
Burial:
Willow Springs Cemetery
Contributions:
The Gideons or the Mtn. Grove Christian Academy c/o the funeral home.