William Fisher

FISHER

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/17/2014 at 12:21:51

Services Are Held For Victim Of Fire
Services for William Fisher, 70, of LeClaire, who was found dead near a pile of burned trash at the edge of LeClaire on Wednesday, were to be held at 3 pm. Today in McGinnis Chapel, Bettendorf.

Burial was to be in Glendale Cemetery, LeClaire.

Dr. R. M. Perkins, Scott County medical examiner, pronounced Fisher dead at the scene, ruling death was caused by burns and possibly smoke inhalation. Perkins surmised the man’s clothes caught fire when he got too close to burning logs in the trash pile.

Mr. Fisher was born in Hillsdale, Ill. He married Pearl Benner in Clinton July 7, 1925. The couple had lived in LeClaire 45 years.

He was the operator of Lock and Dam No, 14 near LeClaire until retiring in 1966. He had been employed by the Lock office 40 years.

Since his retirement, Mr. Fisher had worked part-time for the LeClaire Quarries.

He was a veteran of World War I.

Survivors include his wife; sisters, Alta Ratliffe, Madison, Fla., and Anna Frandsen, and brothers, John, Le Claire, and James, New Orleans, La.

Source: Times Democrat, Davenport, Ia., 14 Nov 1968, p. 3.