Full Name: Grace W. Fisher Age: 99 Years Sex: Female
Current address: Topeka, Kansas
Date of death: Sunday afternoon, December 8, 2002
Place of death: A Topeka area hospital
Date of birth: March 19, 1903 Place of birth: Kansas City, Missouri
Parents: William J. and Grace A. Wilkes Shaw
Years in current city/town: Has resided in Topeka since 1928.
Background: She attended business college in Kansas City, Missouri. She was a member of Seabrook United Church of Christ . She taught Sunday School for 20 years, was a Deaconess, and was Pilgrim Fellowship leader for many years. She was employed as the dietary department supervisor at Washburn Rural High School, retiring in 1964. She provided foster care for Menninger patients for 10 years. She received the Kansas Health Care Assoc. Distinguished Citizen Award in 1997.
Relatives: Married to: Cleo E. Fisher on July 17, 1924 in Kansas City, Kansas. He preceded her in death
in 1994.
preceded in death by: see above
Immediate survivors:
Son: Bill Fisher, Santa Ana, California
Daughter: Marjorie L. Brown, Joplin , MO
Daughter: Evelyn D. Williams Tenhulzen, Ralston, Nebraska
Daughter: Leann G. Jernigan, Omaha, NE
14 Grandchildren
14 Great-grandchildren
4 Great-great-grandchildren
Service time, day, date, place: Seabrook United Church of Christ at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December
11, 2002
Burial: Private Inurnment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery
Visitation times, place: None
Memorial contributions, if any: Seabrook United Church of Christ, 4425 SW 19th St, Topeka, KS 66604