\t\t\tJames \u201cJim\u201d Frederick Fry \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
James \u201cJim\u201d Frederick Fry, 74, of Exeter Township, passed away on February 20, 2026, at his residence. Born in Reading, PA on January 10, 1952, he was a son to the late Frederick W. Fry and Constance (Bloomfield) Fry. <\/p>\n
Jim was a 1969 graduate of Twin Valley High School and attended Williamsport Area Community College. He worked as a printer and also in electrical supply sales. Most recently, he worked for Colonial Electric for more than 15 years, serving as a warehouse manager and sales professional in customer service before retiring in 2020.<\/p>\n
Jim was a life-long member of St. Mary\u2019s Episcopal Church, serving on the Vestry for many years. He was an avid golfer and also enjoyed bowling, proudly achieving a couple of 300 games and 700 series. He liked watching Flyers hockey, Phillies baseball, and looked forward to regularly playing cards with his friends. Above all, he was known as a kind and genuinely nice man. That is how many will remember him.<\/p>\n
Jim is survived by his sister, Kathy Ann Smith, and her husband Joseph Smith, of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
A viewing will be held at Auman\u2019s Inc., 390 W. Neversink Rd., Reading, PA 19606, on February 28, 2026, from 9:30 am to 10:30 am. A prayer service will promptly commence in the funeral home at 10:30 am. Graveside committal will immediately follow at Laureldale Cemetery, 4631 Pottsville Pike, Reading, PA 19605.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James \u201cJim\u201d Frederick Fry OBITUARY James \u201cJim\u201d Frederick Fry, 74, of Exeter Township, passed away on February 20,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-123819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}