Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 13, 1993 TAG: 9310130288
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: ROCKY MOUNT LENGTH: Short
OBIT FISHER, RALPH GRIFFIN
FISHER, Ralph Griffin, 70, of Rt. 4, Rocky Mount, passed away Monday,
October 11, 1993 at his home. He was a graduate of Virginia Tech and served as
a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He began his career as
an agent for State Farm Insurance in Roanoke, Va. He was promoted to the Home
Office in Bloomington, Ill., where he received numerous promotions throughout
his thirty-two year career. He was also a member of the Society of Certified
Life Underwriters. He retired in 1984 and returned to Rocky Mount, where he
actively enjoyed being near family and friends. Ralph was a loving husband,
devoted father, great friend and a wonderful man who will be dearly missed by
all who knew him. Surviving is his wife, Stella (Toni) Fisher; one son and
daughter-in-law, Charles (Chuck) and Lisa Fisher, Bloomington, Ill; two
daughters and son-in-law, Anne Marie Parron, San Diego, Calif., Kay Ellen and
Philip Masters, Dallas, Texas. Also surviving are two sisters and
brothers-in-law, Edith Page and Jack Helms, Rocky Mount, Betty Jane (Betsy)
and Pete Guilliams, Callaway; three brothers and a sister-in-law, Grover
Wilson (Bill) and Hazel Fisher, Jack Fisher and Howard Lee (Slick) Fisher, all
of Callaway, Va.; five grandchildren, Kendyl and Chad Griffin Fisher, Michael,
Connor and John Masters. A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m.
Thursday from Lynch Chapel, Rocky Mount, Va., by Rev. Dan Garrett. In lieu of
flowers, the family suggests that memorials be made to the Franklin County
Rescue Squad or the American Cancer Society.
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