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In Memory of Flying Fred Curry

~ In Memoriam ~
A Prayer Card For

Flying Fred Curry

Flying Fred wrote this poem for his father.
Each chapter is a stanza. His life is the evidence beneath.
Invocation I · The Origin

i.He remembers his father as days go by ii.He remembers his father in times long ago

Wild Bull Curry wrestling young Fred on the beach. Father and son playing at what will become his trade.
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Before the name Born into the business. The most feared man in wrestling taught him to fight before he ever learned to fly.
II · Becoming

i.He remembers his father ii.whose soul never died

Wrestling program billing Fred as Bull Curry Jr. — the name he inherited before he had one of his own.
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The name on the card Given a name. Handed a shadow. Expected to disappear inside both.
III · His Own Hand

i.Though dying, a part of life ii.that cannot be denied

First page of Flying Fred Curry's handwritten autobiography — Acknowledgments thanking his mother Anna, his father Bull, the Sheik, and Fritz Von Erich.
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Chapter by chapter Then he sat down and wrote the story himself — so his family would have it in his own voice.
IV · Home

i.Memories replace emptiness at night ii.Clichés that were spoken in days long ago iii.Brings happiness and laughter that replaces life's plight

The Curry family at Ohio Stadium — Carol Koury with flowers, Fred III in OSU #3, Kandi, Mike, Nick, and Flying Fred Curry.
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Open the door
Forty-five years All three sons. The family he made. Scarlet and gray.
V · Until the End

i.He remembers his father ii.all times of each day iii.Rewards fill the night iv.with visions of light

Flying Fred Curry's aged hand signing The Walking Riot — the book he wrote about his father Wild Bull Curry — from his hospice bed, April 2026.
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Open the night
Still keeping him Bull had been gone over forty years. Fred was still putting him on the page.
~ Bigger than life ~

As he remembers his father
who was bigger than life.

~ Service ~

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

10 AM – 12 PM · Prayer Service at 12 PM

Funeral Home

Carmon Funeral Home

807 Bloomfield Ave., Windsor, CT

Burial

Mt. St. Benedict Cemetery

Bloomfield, CT

~ The card closes ~
~ In Memoriam ~

Flying Fred
Curry

The World's Greatest Babyface
June 12, 1941·April 3, 2026

— Built by his son — Every photo, every word, every breath — real.
An archive for the family Fred gave us,
and the fans he flew for.