Paul Gerhardt Fischer (1932-2014)

FISCHER, STRASHEIM, MONTGOMERY, RABE, DETERMANN, STRAWTHER

Posted By: jane austin (email)
Date: 1/31/2016 at 06:22:38

PAUL G. FISCHER
(March 30, 1932 - April 1, 2014)

PAUL G. FISCHER, 82, of Cherokee, Iowa, formerly of Marcus, Iowa, passed away Tuesday afternoon, April 1, 2014 in the Cherokee Villa Nursing & Rehab Center.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 5th at 11 a.m. at the Meriden Evangelical Free Church. Pastor Larry Ostercamp will officiate. Burial will be at Cedar Cemetery at Larrabee, Iowa. There will be military rites at graveside by L. A. Wescott Post #2253 of the V.F.W. There will be a family prayer service at 10:30 a.m. at the Church on Saturday. Visitation will be on Friday from 1 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee with the family present from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial be made to the Meriden Evangelical Free Church – Project Haiti Church.

Paul Gerhardt Fischer was born to Robert and Anna (Strasheim) on March 30, 1932 at Norfolk, Nebraska. Paul lived on farmed in Pierce and Monowi, Nebraska, Primghar, Iowa and moved to Calumet, Iowa where he graduated from high school in 1950. He went to Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for one semester and worked there until he went into the Army for the Korean War where he served from January 12, 1953 until October 28, 1954 in Army, Reserve Artillery as a Sergeant.

He was married to Margaret Ann Montgomery on March 17, 1956 at Oakdale Evangelical Free Church. They lived in Cherokee for one year and then moved to Marcus, Iowa for 49 years and then moved back to Cherokee in August of 2006.

They had six children – John, Jerry, Joyce, Judy, James and Jeff.

Paul worked for the Moorman Feed Company as a salesman and then for Mid-American Energy as a gas and electric serviceman for 20 years. He had to retire as a result of a 40 foot fall in 1976. He then would drive elderly people to their appointments to different towns.

Paul accepted Christ as his Savior when he was 18 at the Oakdale Evangelical Free Church. He was a member of the Meriden Evangelical Free Church. He was also a Sunday School teacher and Youth Leader for many years. He liked to play his accordion and guitar, who with his wife, Ann, [sic] put on programs at churches, senior citizen groups, nursing homes and family parties. He was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

He was preceded in death by his granddaughter, Stephanie Fischer, grandson Joseph Fischer, brothers, Marlin Fischer, Leslie Fischer, Rahland Fischer, and Eugene Fischer, and a sister Delilah Rabe.

Survivors are his wife, Ann, his children, John (Kathy) Fischer of Treynor, IA, Jerry (Ruth) Fischer of Byron, MN, Joyce (Mark) Determann of Wall Lake, IA, Judy (Larry) Strawther of Leander, TX, James Fischer of Del Rio, TX, and Jeff Fischer of Cherokee, IA. 13 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, his sister Marvene Fischer of Sioux Falls, SD, and a sister-in-law, Phyllis Fischer of Kalispell, MT along with many friends and neighbors.