Harry R. Fryer

  Events

• He served in the navy during World War I.

• He worked as a theater manager for Kerasotes Theater Company and operated the Onarga Theater and later a theater in Rantoul, retiring in 1964.

• He was a member of the Rantoul American Legion, Rantoul Lodge 470 AM & AM, the first United Methodist Church at Rantoul and the Danville Consistory.

• He had a residence at 1213 Bel Air Drive in Rantoul, Champaign County, Illinois.

Harry married Lenore E. Roach, daughter of Timothy James Roach and Mary Rozella Holt, in 1917.⁵²⁷ (Lenore E. Roach was born 18 March 1900 in Saybrook, McLean County, Illinois,⁵²⁷ died 23 November 1975 in Tuscola, Douglas County, Illinois ⁵²⁷ and was buried 26 November 1975 in Onarga, Iroquois County, Illinois at Onarga Cemetery ⁵²⁷.)

Harry next married Hazel Gladys Jimison, daughter of Henry Erle Jimison and Fay E. Nichols, in February 1948 in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri.⁵²⁸ (Hazel Gladys Jimison was born 10 June 1911 in Del Rey, Iroquois County, Illinois,³⁶ died 17 June 2001 in Sullivan, Moultrie County, Illinois at the Illinois Masonic Home ³⁶ and was buried 20 June 2001 in Onarga, Iroquois County, Illinois at Onarga Cemetery ³⁶.)