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Frank Elvest Fisher
Oct 9, 1912 - Nov 13, 2008

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Frank E. and F. Josephine FISHER

Alva Cemetery


Posted by Jo Aguirre

Marshall Funeral Home
 
Funeral services for Frank Elvest Fisher will be 1:30 p.m. Monday, November 17, 2008, at the Alva Wesleyan Church with Pastor Dr. Charles Dunn officiating. Interment will be in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva.
Frank Elvest Fisher, son of the late Martha (Wilkinson) and Charles Alvador Fisher, was born October 9, 1912, at Alva, Oklahoma, and passed away November 13, 2008, at Edmond, Oklahoma.
Frank attended the Sunnyside School District #91. After the 8th grade, he went to work building roads with a four-horse team pulling a 5 foot Fresno.
Frank was married to Josephine Dunn on August 1, 1933. To this union, three children were born, Sammie, Kathy, and Tom.
Frank worked at the Alva Roller Mill and then in 1943, he leased a ranch of 1,120 acres 12 miles north of Waynoka where he raised wheat and cattle for 34 years.
Frank was president of the Missouri Valley School Board and also the Waynoka School Board. Frank was president of the Community Telephone Line owned by the farmers until the dial systems came by. Frank served several terms on the A.S.C. committee, chosen by his neighbors.
Frank was converted to Christ in 1958, and joined the Alva Wesleyan Methodist Church where he served in several positions, teacher, board member and board of stewards. In 1977, Frank and Josephine retired to Alva and he continued to help friends with harvest and field work. Besides his parents, Frank was preceded in death by his wife, Josephine, in February 2000; six brothers, Bill, Bert, Charlie, Chance, Jake, and four sisters, Anna, Gertrude, Lois and Jane.
Frank is survived by his three children, Sammie and Verlyn Snell, Kathy Chirico, and Tom and Deena Fisher; one brother, Louis and wife, Vernette, of Las Vegas, Nevada; and one sister-in-law, Phyllis Fisher, Alva.
Also surviving are six granddaughters and their families, Anne and Dwight Heinrich, Alathea and Steve Voss, Ardeth and John Arman, Stephanie and Billy Payahsape, Diana and Don Hood, and Eleni and Dub Sutton; fifteen great grandchildren, Reid, Aaron and Travis Heinrich, Taylor, Jordan and Chandler Voss, Lydia Hornbacker, Audrey, Austin, and Allison Arman, Lauren Hoffman, Parker and Presley Payahsape, and Courtney and Ryan Hood; other relatives and many friends.
Remembrances may be shared with the family at http://www.marshallfuneralhomes.com/
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