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Notes for Caroline Martin PYLE
93, of West Marlborough, an accomplished artist, horsewoman and croquet player, died Sunday of injuries sustained in a single-car accident in Unionville.
She was driving home from London Grove Quaker Meeting, when her vehicle struck a tree on Route 842 about 11 a.m. She died at the scene.
Mrs. Fry's impressionistic oil paintings and watercolors are in collections at the University of Delaware, the Wistar Institute and the Delaware Art Museum, as well as private collections.
In 1984, she and her late husband, Guy Fry, an artist and advertising director, exhibited together at the American College in Bryn Mawr.
The couple also shared a love of croquet. They participated in tournaments and had established Walnut Green Mallet Club at their home, where they had a court registered with the the U.S. Croquet Association.
For decades, Mrs. Fry rode horses in fox hunts. In recent years, her son Russell B. Jones Jr. said, his mother had slowed down her activities and had stopped painting and playing croquet and no longer rode horses, but she continued to follow the Cheshire Hunt by car.
Mrs. Fry, who learned to ride while growing up on a farm in Chester County, graduated from West Chester High School and from West Chester State Teachers' College, now West Chester University, in 1931.
In the early 1930s, she married Russell B. Jones, who would later become a Chester County Commissioner. The couple had a dairy farm in Westtown that later became a beef farm. They also raised hunting horses.
When her two sons were young, Mrs. Fry, who was distantly related to famed illustrator Howard Pyle, began to study painting in Philadelphia and Wilmington.
Her first husband died in 1972. Five years later, she married Guy Fry. He died in 1989.
In addition to her son, Mrs. Fry is survived by son Richard Jones; a sister; a brother; eight grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at London Grove Friends Meeting, Route 926 and Newark Road, London Grove.
Memorial donations may be made to the Cheshire Land Preservation Fund, Box 983, Unionville, Pa. 19375.
Contact staff writer Sally A. Downey at 215-854-2913 or sdowney@@phillynews.com.
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - Wednesday, July 28, 2004
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