Bay Area retail legend, matriarch of Fry’s Electronics family dies |
Alice Jean Fry, a Bay Area retail legend and matriarch of the Fry’s Electronics family, has died at age 94, her family announced. Fry passed away at her Paradise Valley, Ariz., home on Feb. 24.
Fry was born in Longview, Texas during the Great Depression, and married Charles “Chuck” Fry in 1951. The young couple moved to Kansas, where Alice worked at Cessna, which was headquartered there. Her earnings laid the “financial foundation" for the couple to move to California, her obituary recounts, and start their first grocery store with Chuck’s brother Donald. The first Fry’s Food........