While a student nurse, Mary Edith Fry participated in the U. S., World War II Cadet Nursing Corps. According to her membership card, she was born on October 13, 1926. She was the daughter of Leon W. Fry, a Stationary Engineer, and they lived in New Galilee, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

Mary Edith's mother was Margaret Loretta Dunphy. Her siblings were Thomas William, Edward Vernon and Phyllis Jean.

She graduated from Beaver Falls High School in 1944.

Newspaper articles in the early 1950s indicate that Mary Edith Fry moved to New York.

According to her sister, Phyllis, Mary Edith married (Edmund) Alan Buco and goes by the name of Maredith Buco. She lives in the Atlanta, Georgia area.