Submitted by: Dan Rich

Adelle Frye

March 8, 1937 - Aug. 17, 1995

South Bend Tribune 8/21/1995

SOUTH BEND - Adelle (Teague) Frye, 58, of Chaparral, N.M., formerly of South Bend, died at 9:30 p.m. Thursday in William Beaumont Hospital, El Paso, Texas, after an illness. Mrs. Frye was born March 8, 1937, in Kosciusko, Miss., and lived in South Bend until 1989.

She is survived by five daughters, Francine Long of Chandler, Ariz., Lavon Hardin of South Bend, Vickie Jenkins and Julie Cooper, both of Milwaukee and Anita White of Chaparral; nine sons, Harry Reid Jr. and Thomas Frye, both of Chaparral, Erskine Reid of Phoenix, Tyrone Reid of Paducah, Ky., Robert Frye, Timothy Frye and Rodney Frye, all of Michigan City, Brian Frye of San Deigo, and Steven Frye of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; 46 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; her mother, Laura Teague of South Bend; three sisters, Carrie McKinney and Mazell Williams, both of South Bend, and Willa Jean Elkins of Indianapolis; and five brothers, T.J. Wilson of Canton, Minn., Willie Teague and William Riley, both of South Bend, Jessie Teague of St. Paul, Minn., and Fred Teague of Little Rock, Ark. She was a member of Pilgrim Baptist Church.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in the church. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in Alford's Mortuary.