PFC Eddie Wayne Frye was born 21 Apr 1916 in Lucketts, Virginia (Loudon County) to Joseph Howard and Carrie Bell (McGolerick) Frye, one of 10 children.
Assigned to F Company 116th Infantry. According to the morning report he was probably serving with the unit on D-Day. He was killed in action 17 Jul 1944. At his funeral (in 1948) it was said that he was killed by a sniper in a peach orchard. He is buried in the Furnace Mountain Presbyterian Cemetery in Lucketts, Virginia.
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