Milton Fried Rehoboth Publisher

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.