RALPH FISHER
STATION AGENT
SVC


FISHER: Ralph A. Fisher Jr., 76, of Silver City passed away Thursday, March 9, at Fort Bayard Medical Center. 
Cremation has taken place under the direction of Bright Funeral Home. 
Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 18, at Western New Mexico University's Harlan Hall science building. 
Mr. Fisher was born Aug. 12, 1923, in Pernberton, N.J., the son of Ralph A. Fisher Sr. and Edith Elizabeth Lucas Fisher. 
He is survived by one sister, Betty Lee, and her husband, J William R. Lee, of San Diego; 
one nephew, Robert B. Lee, and his wife, Susan, of Poway, Calif.; one niece, Barbara Fout, and her husband, Ray, of Phoenix, Ariz.; 
a cousin, Clifford D. Ferris of Laramie, Wyo.; and two grand nieces, Debra L. Webster and Tamra Mould, both of Phoenix. 
Mr. Fisher was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Howard I. Otto Fisher. 
He graduated June 18, 1941, from Forrest Park High School in Baltimore. 
He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps as a lineman from 1943 46 and received the Meritorious Unit Award, 
World War II Victory Medal, American Campaign Medal, European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, 
Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, and Good Conduct Medal. 
He received a bachelor of science degree in 1951 from Arizona State College at Tempe. 
He worked for Frontier Airlines in Arizona and transferred to the Grant County Airport. 
He later went to work for Iexas New Mexico Power Co. and retired from there in 1989 after 24 1/2 years of service. 
Mr. Fisher was a life member of The National Wildlife Federation. 
He was a member of the Audubon Society, serving as a trail guide for nature walks and as a bird count organizer. 
He was a nature and wildlife photographer (Black Hawk Photography). 
His Southwest photography was featured on Western New Mexico Telephone Co.'s phone book for several years. 
He took first place at the Grant County Fair for his photograph of the Kneeling Nun. 
It is the voyage and the adventures on the way that count, not the arrival it self. 
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Ralph Fisher Scholarship Fund, 
Western New Mexico University Foundation, P.O. Box 1158, Silver City, NM 88062. 
Bright Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
-http://www.rootsweb.com/~nma/grobittextf.htm
(7/17/06)

RALPH A FISHER 	
Born 12 Aug 1923	
Died 09 Mar 2000 
Age 69
At 88061 (Silver City, Grant, NM)		
SSN issued in Maryland
-SSDI
(7/17/06)

R A FISHER
Seniority date of 12/17/55 on the 3/1/62 FL/ALEA seniority list.
-Jake Lamkins
(7/17/06)

Posted at the FL Club:
Station agent Ralph Fisher has died
A recent browse of the web found an item that former FL employee Ralph Fisher died 3/9/2000, age 76.
The item said, "He worked for Frontier Airlines in Arizona and transferred to the Grant County Airport. 
He later went to work for Iexas New Mexico Power Co. and retired from there in 1989 after 24 1/2 years of service."
Grant County airport is at SVC.
He was a station agent and is on the 3/1/62 FL/ALEA seniority list with a seniority date of 12/17/55
Does anyone recall Ralph or have more info?
-Jake Lamkins
(7/21/06)