IN MEMORIAM

EXPANDED EULOGIES

“In Memoriam” listings are expanded paid obituaries, phrased largely as the family requests, and may include enhanced information or photographs that might not fit within free death notices.

Claude Fry

A celebration of life service and visitation for Claude Leon Fry, 64, who passed away Jan. 21, 2026, at Bethesda Home in Goessel, will be 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, at Bethesda Home.

He was born April 5, 1961, in Pratt to C. Elmer and Ethel (Curtiss) Fry and graduated from Goessel High School in the class of 1979.

Claude was a veteran, serving in the U.S. Army from 1984 to 1986. He was a welder at Excel Industries in Hesston and Case-New Holland in Wichita and also worked at Pre-Stressed Concrete, Newton.

Claude is survived by his sisters, Lisa Michelle Stanley and Debra J. Wilcox, and brother, Roger L. Fry. He was preceded in death by his parents and siblings Clayton L. Fry, Dennis L. Fry, Wanda Jo Grimm, and Sharon R. Lewis and brother-in-law George Steven Wilcox.

Memorial gifts are designated for Bethesda Home.