MILTON KENNETH FRIED
UNCLE MILTIE
REHOBOTH PUBLISHER
Wilmington News Journal,
Friday, March 16, 1993: Rehoboth:
Uncle Miltie, Milton
Kenneth Fried, Rehoboth Beach publisher , died Thursday last
at Kemt General Hospital,
Dover, where he was a patient.
Mr. Fried was born 1910 in
New Jersey most records say. We also know he graduated
High School in Pemms Grove,
New Jersey in 1927.
Mr. Fried first published
the Public Press in 1944 which newspaper later resumed the name
Delaware Coast Press, the
weekly Sussex county newspaper, that he sold in 1968.
He retired in 1980 from his
Fried Publishing Company. He had been Grand Master of
Odd Fellows, an office of
both the Kiwanis and Lions clubs, The elks club, the Moose Club,
Rotary club and president
of the Chamber of Commerce.
Survivors are , two sons,
Buddy of Seaford and Wayne of Salisbury, daughter Lelinie,
Rehoboth. A sister Blanch
Slone, Wilmington. Five grandchildren and three great grand
children. A son Dale
Kenneth, died in 1985. Mr. Fried is buried in Henlopen Memorial
Park
on the Broadkill River.
His wife, Ruth Ewing
Fried , who he married in 1931, died in 1978.
Do not know when Uncle
Miltie came to Rehoboth but he is listed as being in the group of
Rehoboth men, Leon, 'Blub'
Thompson, Preston West, himself, who started the Rehoboth
Air Service at the new
Rehoboth airport at Midway, 1928.
Also have record of his
1938 marriage to a Rehoboth girl, Ruth Ewing.
My personal thoughts,
repeat my personal thoughts, are that this lady, Ruth Ewing Fried,
should be awarded a medal,
like the Silver Star. Milt Fried had his own habitual way of
behaving.
Since we do not have more
data for Uncle Miltie, lets take a look at his wife Ruth Ewing
Fried, and her family.
Ruth A Ewing was born in
Rehoboth, 7 January 1910 to Harry Gustavus Ewing, born
1871 and died 1941 and
Olive Mae Goslee, born 1878, died 1948. As we already know she
married Milton Fried in
1931 and had children. We also know she died 12 May 1978 and is
buried in Hemlopen Memorial
Park on the Broadkill River.
Her father, was a railroad
man, filled jobs as waterman, fireman, watcjhman and laborer. The
family lived at 45
Rehoboth Avenue,
The Ewing family had six
girls and on son. One daughter, Edna Virginia, only lived one year,
dieing in 1898. The son,
Clarence Adolphus, a carpenter, born 14 March 1895, married
Eugenia Hall Virden
Holland, in 1928 and they had two children, Charles Holland and
Elizabeth Virden Ewing. Holland, as he was known, graduated Rehoboth High, married
Barbara Walker, daughter
of Joe and Lillian, Joe a Coast Guard.. Barbara married James
Joseph after Holland died
at young age. Elizabeth married John Hazzard and is the mother
of the Hazzards with the
auto supply at Middway.
Laura Scott Ewing married
Harry Clendaniel who was a horse trainer and had the Reboboth
Riding Stables on the
canal. There were a bunch of Clendaniels in Rehoboth High School
too, one Johnny , my age,
and Barbara, a bit younger.
Tenie Kathering married
Elbert Ross Reynolds, I did not know them.
Emily Hester Ewing married Fred
Phillip, the father of Delaware Baseball Hall of Fame,
Cliff Phillips.
Ruth we known was wife of Milton
Fried, our subject.
The last daughter, Eugenia, married
Jack Ingram, died at age 83. I did ot know them either.
May the mentioned live in memory
forever.