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From: (MACLAINE OF LOCHBUIE)
Subject: FRYE,REV.GLENN MCKINLEY
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:16:20 -0600 (CST)

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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