Daniel A. Fry, age 75, of Espyville passed away Wednesday morning October 28, 2026, in Erie VA Medical Center, Hospice Unit.<\/p>\n
He was born in Meadville on August 3, 1951, the son of Vernon and Betty Ann (Tarr) Fry.<\/p>\n
Dan was a 1969 graduate of Conneaut Valley High School and served his country in the United States Army during Vietnam.<\/p>\n
He was a tri-axle truck driver for Ross Trucking for many years and served as the road master for North Shenango Township for 20 years.<\/p>\n
He was a member of Pumphouse #45 in Hartstown, and enjoyed spending time with family at camp, playing cards, and helping friends.<\/p>\n
He is survived by five children: Sarah Ewing (Clinton), Justin Fry (Carrie), Samuel Fry (Tiffanie), Katie Niemi (Mitchell), and Corey Fry; five grandchildren: Brooklyn Fry, Clara Niemi, Hazel Niemi, Simon Niemi, and Henry Niemi; his beloved niece and nephew whom he helped raise, Christine Moats and Chuck Moats (Jean) and their grandson Lukas Moats; four siblings: Joyce Yunik, Linda Dutcher, Judy Winkle, and David Fry; and many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
He was preceded in death by his parents and six siblings.<\/p>\n
Family and friends will be received at ROSE AND WAID FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORY, INC 12422 CONNEAUT LAKE RD., CONNEAUT LAKE, on Friday, October 30, 2026, from 4:00 \u2013 7:00 PM. A Funeral Service will be held in the funeral home on Saturday, October 31, 2026, at 10:00 AM with Rev. Loren Little, officiating.<\/p>\n
Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Gardens.<\/p>\n
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to: Erie Humane Society, 2407 Zimmerly Rd., Erie, PA 16506 or Crawford County Humane Society, 11012 Kennedy Hill Rd., Meadville, PA 16335.<\/p>\n
Memories and condolences may be shared at rosefh.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel A. Fry, age 75, of Espyville passed away Wednesday morning October 28, 2026, in Erie VA Medical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-316533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316533","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=316533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}