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DATE: SATURDAY, May 29, 1993                   TAG: 9305290656
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: AUSTINVILLE                                LENGTH: Short

OBIT FISHER, RAYMOND LLOYD

FISHER, Raymond Lloyd, 72, of Austinville, died Friday, May 28, 1993, in the Wythe County Community Hospital. He was a retired chemist with the New Jersey Zinc Company and a well known orchid grower. He was a member of the Olive Branch United Methodist Church; a member of the Lead Mines Ruritan Club, a member of the Ivanhoe Masonic Lodge No. 235, A.F.&A.M., a member of the American Orchid Society, the Bee Keepers Association, and the Soiree Society. He was preceded in death by his father, John Marshall Fisher. He is survived by his wife, Mildred James Fisher; his mother, Clara Manuel Fisher, Wytheville; one sister, Kathleen Hoback, Bristol, Va.; one brother, Carl Fisher, Richmond; several nieces and nephews also survive. Funeral services will be held Sunday, May 30, 1993, at 4 p.m. at the Reese Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Joe Carrico officiating. Entombment will follow. The famiy will receive friends at the Reese Funeral Home from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Reese Funeral Home in Austinville, Va., is in charge of the arrangements. 


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