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Jesse Woods Fisher

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Jesse Woods Fisher

Birth
San Marcos, Hays County, Texas, USA
Death
18 Nov 1936 (aged 63)
Loma Linda, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Burial
Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
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Jesse Woods Fisher was a Yuma Valley cattleman, widely known throughout the southwest as a cattle buyer. Born in Uvalde, Texas to Rev. Orceneth Asbury Fisher and Mary Susan Simons Fisher, he moved to Yuma in 1917. He purchased cattle throughout Arizona and Southern California.

In 1935, he announced his candidacy for the Yuma justice of the peace. He became ill while campaigning before the primary and passed away in the hospital in Loma Linda, California.

Jesse was married to Kate Warren Wentworth. He and Kate had two daughters, Mattie Ola Fisher Power and Kathleen Mary "Kay" Fisher Noonan; and five sons; Chester Newell Fisher, Sidney Fly Fisher, Jesse Woods Fisher, Jr., Milam Travis Fisher and William Murray Fisher. Jesse was preceded in death by sons, William Murray Fisher and Chester Newell Fisher.

"RITES FRIDAY AT 4:30 FOR J.W. FISHER

J.W. Fisher, 63-year-old Yuma valley cattleman, widely known throughout the southwest as a cattle buyer, died shortly at 11 o'clock last night at Loma Linda sanitarium following an illness of double pneumonia contracted early in the fall, relatives announced.

Funeral services will be held from the O.C. Johnson chapel at 4:30 p.m. Friday. Interment will take place in the Yuma cemetery.

Yuma Weekly Sun; Yuma, Arizona
November 20, 1936; Page One.
dm wms (#47395868)"
Jesse Woods Fisher was a Yuma Valley cattleman, widely known throughout the southwest as a cattle buyer. Born in Uvalde, Texas to Rev. Orceneth Asbury Fisher and Mary Susan Simons Fisher, he moved to Yuma in 1917. He purchased cattle throughout Arizona and Southern California.

In 1935, he announced his candidacy for the Yuma justice of the peace. He became ill while campaigning before the primary and passed away in the hospital in Loma Linda, California.

Jesse was married to Kate Warren Wentworth. He and Kate had two daughters, Mattie Ola Fisher Power and Kathleen Mary "Kay" Fisher Noonan; and five sons; Chester Newell Fisher, Sidney Fly Fisher, Jesse Woods Fisher, Jr., Milam Travis Fisher and William Murray Fisher. Jesse was preceded in death by sons, William Murray Fisher and Chester Newell Fisher.

"RITES FRIDAY AT 4:30 FOR J.W. FISHER

J.W. Fisher, 63-year-old Yuma valley cattleman, widely known throughout the southwest as a cattle buyer, died shortly at 11 o'clock last night at Loma Linda sanitarium following an illness of double pneumonia contracted early in the fall, relatives announced.

Funeral services will be held from the O.C. Johnson chapel at 4:30 p.m. Friday. Interment will take place in the Yuma cemetery.

Yuma Weekly Sun; Yuma, Arizona
November 20, 1936; Page One.
dm wms (#47395868)"

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  • Created by: Diane Minton Relative Grandchild
  • Added: Feb 22, 2011
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66012841/jesse_woods-fisher: accessed ), memorial page for Jesse Woods Fisher (23 May 1873–18 Nov 1936), Find a Grave Memorial ID 66012841, citing Desert Lawn Memorial Park, Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, USA; Maintained by Diane Minton (contributor 47232375).