Rev. Glenn McKinley Frye, 99, died Wed, Apr 17, 1996. Born in Jewett, OH, in 1896, he graduated from Kahoka, Missouri High School in 1914. he attended Iowa Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant, IA, and graduated from harvard College, Cambridge, MA, in 1921 and Boston University School of Theology in 1923.
Rev. Frye was a preacher most of his life, giving his first sermon when he was 11. He had student pastorates in New Hampshire during his time at Harvard and Boston University. Upon graduation he became assistant to the pastor in the downtown Methodist Church in Omaha, NE, where he met his first wife, Margaret Woodruff. From there they moved to Ithaca, MI, where he was the pastor from 1925 to 1930, from which they moved to the First Methodist Church in Lansing, MI.
In 1936 he became the District Superintendent for the Grand Traverse District, leaving there in 1938 to become the pastor of Peace Temple in Benton Harbor, where he stayed until 1951. During the pastorate he received an honorary degree from Albion College. For the next five years he served the Bishop as an assistant before going to Calvary Church in Jackson. In 1962 he moved to East Lansing, where he assisted the minister in establishing the Methodist Church serving the students at Michigan State University.
Following the death of his first wife, Rev. Frey married Lila Ruth Fuller in 1966. After his retirement, he assisted the minister at the Velda Rose United Methodist Chuch in Mesa, AZ, and served as an interim pastor for Peoples Church in Kalkaska. His last pastorate was in the summer church outside Kalkaska. His last pastorate was in the summer church outside Kalkaska during the period when the built their church. Rev. Frye served in the First World War in Coastal Artillery, attaining the rank of Second Lieutenant.
Rev. Frye was a world traveler in the days before jet travel. Among his travels were visits to Methodist missions in China just before the Communist take over and in South America in the early '50s.
He is survived by his Lila; children Dr. Glenn M. Frye Jr, Dr. Harriet Elizabeth Frye Heath, Leonard Fuller and Gerald Fuller; 14 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
Religious services were conducted services were conducted Apr 22 by The Rev. Charles Fulmer, with graveside services in North Eagle Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Albion College, or to the Bear Lake Christian Church, Kalkaska, in memory of Glenn M. Frye.
Arrangements were made by The Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel.
