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- GF. F. Fertrude F. Fry, age 88 of Sorento, Illinois, passed away Sunday, December 4, 2022, at Greenville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Greenville.
Funeral will be held 11:00 a.m. Thursday, December 8, 2022, at the Donnell - Wiegand Funeral Home in Greenville. Interment will follow at Kirkland Cemetery, Sorento, Illinois. Visitation will be held from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. Wednesday at the Donnell - Wiegand Funeral Home in Greenville. Memorials may be made to the Sorento Baptist Church.
Gertrude Fitzgerald, the daughter of Addie and Bessie Mae (Allwood) Fitzgerald, was born November 1, 1934 in Flora, Illinois. She was raised in Clay City, attended the local schools, and graduated from Clay City High School with the Class of 1954. Gertrude worked at Watson's Drug Store in Olney, Illinois, then got married and moved to Granite City, Illinois.
Gertrude and Thomas Charles Fry were united in marriage on May 29, 1954 in Olney, Illinois. They started a family in Granite City and moved to Sorento, Illinois in the 1970's. She worked for Hampton's Nursing Home for 37 years. Gertrude and Thomas were members of the Sorento Baptist Church.
Preceded in death by her parents, husband Thomas Charles Fry in 1985, son Jeffery J. Fry, son Robert Lee Fry, and siblings: Irma Webb, Velda Mae Kimmerle, Billy Webb, and grandson Harvey Fry, and great-grandson Leon Fry.
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