Obituaries: April 5, 2018

Daryl Dennis Fry

Daryl Dennis Fry, 76, longtime Colfax mechanic, died Tuesday, March 27, 2018, at Whitman Hospital in Colfax.

No public services are planned, and Daryl will be buried in the Colfax Cemetery.

Born Nov. 22, 1941, in Kellogg, Idaho, to Miles and Edna May (Taylor) Fry, he grew up in the Colfax and Steptoe areas. Daryl graduated from Colfax High School in 1960.

He moved back to Kellogg where he worked in the mines in Silver Valley. He married Eileen “Sem” Taylor in 1961. They made their home in Kellogg and began their family. They moved back to Colfax a few years later and Daryl found work as a mechanic for Jones Truck and Implement, later at Arrow Machinery north of town, and at the Colfax Grange. Following that, he was the “parts man” at Kroll Machinery in Colfax for many years. Eventually the family settled in Diamond.

Daryl loved to tinker in his shop and work on old cars. He was especially fond of his 1931 Model A that he drove all over the country. He liked to attend car shows and enjoyed fishing for salmon near Ilwaco, Wash. He and Sem liked the horse races and were members of the Elks Club. She died in 1995 and, after some time had passed, Daryl found Rosemary Taylor.

They enjoyed trips to the casino, spending time with friends and taking road trips in the Model A. She moved to Diamond in 2001.

Surviving are two children, Loren Fry and Tammy Fry, both Colfax; his companion Rosemary, Diamond; two grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.

Roy Myers

Feb. 8, 1926-Mar. 13, 2018

Roy C. Myers, Jr. passed away March 13, 2018 in Grass Valley, Calif. He was 92. No local service is planned.

Roy was born in Spokane, Wash., on Feb. 8, 1926. His formative years were spent on a 7000 acre ranch outside of Lewiston, Idaho, then later on the family wheat farm outside of Colfax, Wash. He graduated from Colfax High School, then went on to earn a Mechanical Engineering degree with honors from Washington State College.

Roy joined the Sandia Corporation in Albuquerque, N.M., out of college and participated in several high-profile nuclear tests in the South Pacific. He joined the US Navy as an officer and was stationed in New York at the top floor of the Brooklyn Naval Engineering Center, and was the officer in charge of 600 civilian employees. He met his wife, Patricia Louise (Handy), a Navy nurse, while undergoing a lengthy observation at a Navy hospital for a minor condition.

After serving his military term, he went back to Sandia Corp in Livermore, Calif., for several years (and two boys), then operated the family farm in eastern Washington for five years. Two boys later,

he and Pat, and the four boys left the farm for an agricultural engineering job for C. Brewer Corporation in Hilo, Hawaii. It was 1966. Roy later ran a heavy equipment contracting business as a partner developing raw land, excavation and producing landscaping soils, where he worked until retirement. He also bought, develope, and sold lots all around the island. Roy and Pat moved to Grass Valley, Calif, in 2001 to be closer to his children and grandchildren.

Raised on a farm during the depression, Roy worked hard and had a lifelong zest for collecting and fixing things. He recycled anything and everything before it was a popular thing to do. He focused more on the acquisition and storage part of recycling than the “re-use” part. He loved to take apart interesting gadgets to see how they worked and occasionally put them back together again. He was a private pilot and loved aviation. He enthusiastically kept up with scientific developments, and with his son’s various work and home projects.

He is survived by his wife, Pat of 61 years; his sons, Gregory of Elk Grove, Calif., Thomas of Seattle, Wash., Nathan of Garrison, N.Y., and Richard of Grass Valley, Calif .; daughter, Betsy Baker-Smith of East Stroudsburg, Pa .; and 10 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, Roy Sr. and Mildred; sisters, Jean and Louia; and brothers, Robert and Joseph.