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It looks like Fred died in Spokane Washington in 1958. My family has a letter from a Canadian family friend of Fred and his wife Olive who visited him in 1958 in a nursing home in Spokane. He said in the letter that Fred died within a year after his visit.
Fredrick L. Ryon and Olive Shriver Ryon were my grandfather's, Herbert Monck Ryon, adoptive parents after his parents, Francis Monck and Margaret McFarland Monck, died a year apart in 1890 in Cleveland when my grandfather was just six years old. My great grandfather, Francis Monck, an Irish immigrant as a child, had met the Ryons in Michigan where he owned property (and may have had relatives). My grandfather took the Ryon name later as an adult in honor of the Ryon's even though the Ryon's never legally adopted him.
From what I can piece together, after Olive died in 1941 in Green Cove Springs, Florida, Fred returned to his mission work with the Quakers. Whether that mission work went outside the US, I don't know. However, the home that he and Olive purchased in Green Cove Springs seemed to remain as a home base. While, my grandfather left my father and grandmother in the late 1920s they would get an occasional letter from him every few years. There is a letter from him in 1946 that he was staying with Fred and receiving relatives from Michigan. We have other indications from Quaker friends that Fred went about doing mission work after Olive died.
I would love to get any information about Fred Ryon. I have a lot of information about his wife Olive, but very little about him.
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