Joseph Fisher 1894-1945

FISHER, CHRISTOPHERSEN, TENNANT, TILLETT, PEGARICK, CONLEY, HENDRICKS

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 2/12/2017 at 18:04:11

24 May 1945 - The Clarence Sun

Joseph Lawrence Fisher, son of the late Frank and Mary Fisher, was born in Oxford Junction on August 26, 1894, where he spent his early boyhood, moving to a farm in Jones county at the age of nine. At an early age he showed great interest and more than ordinary ability in music.

He was married to Miss Dora Christophersen at Clarence on February 23, 1916, and for a few years they lived on a farm. In September, 1920, he passed the rural mail carrier's examination and for ten years after that he carried mail on Clarence rural route No. 2. At that time they lived in Clarence. In 1929, the family moved to Mt. Vernon and Mr. Fisher went to Chicago for more musical training. In 1930 he returned to Mt. Vernon and then added to his orchestra which became widely known, serving the people for a period of 29 years. In 1943, it became necessary to disband the orchestra because so many of its members were answering the call of their country into the service.

Mr. Fisher was always a great lover of nature and the out doors. He was known as a good fisherman and kept up his interest in that sport as long as he possibly could.

He made friends wherever he went and was widely known by his kindly and cheerful disposition.

After a year's illness, becoming more intense as the time passed, he was called from this world early on the morning of May 15th, 1945.

He is survived by his wife; three sons, Albert of Cedar Rapids, Lieut. Robert, a pilot in the South Pacific, and Lieut. Howard, also a pilot, just recently returned from overseas; three daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Tennant, of Oregon City, Oregon, Mrs. Marian Tillett, of Kane, Wyoming, and Miss Mildred, of Mt. Vernon. Other survivors include his step-mother, Mrs. Barbara Fisher, of Oxford Junction; one brother, Louis Fisher, now overseas; and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Pegarick of Lost Nation, Mrs. Agnes Conley of Hopkinton, and Mrs. Bessie Hendricks of Lakeport, Calif.; also several aunts and an uncle, besides more distant relatives and innumerable friends.

If we could know beyond today as God doth know
Why dearest treasures pass away and tears must flow;
Andy why the darkness leads to light,
Why dreary paths will soon grow bright.
Some day life's wrong will be made right
Faith tells us so.

Funeral services were held from the A. E. Christophersen home and St. John's church on Thursday afternoon, May 17, with the Rev. F. J. Mittler officiating. Interment was made at Mt. Vernon with Masonic rites held at the cemetery.

In charge of the flowers were: Mrs. Helen Thies, Mrs. Helen Kintzel, Imogene Sonnemaker and Esther Latare.

Pall bearers were Ray Doermann, Robert McClellan, Henry Biere, Ray Travis, Frank Benish, Ed Gill.

Honorary bearers were Henry Feddersen, Dick Sonnemaker, Albert Eylers, John Hayek, Hugo Setleff, Wm. Berg.

The attendance reached the capacity of the church.