Obituary clipping from unknown source transcribed by Susan Kimes Burgess August 2, 2005
FISHER - Royal Haigh Fisher, 79, died at Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, on December 30, 1963. He was a semi-retired missionary. Royal Fisher was born in Tokyo, Japan, on September 20, 1884. A graduate of Kalamazoo College in 1906, he received the B.D. degree from the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology in 1913 and an M. A. from the University of Chicago in 1914. He studied also at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
On June 6, 1914, he and the former Josephine Basssett Wray, '13, were married. From 1914 to 1941 he served in Japan for the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. During the following three years he worked with its Home Missionary Society in Denver, Colorado. He was a member of the Foreign Missions Conference, Japan Committee, in New York City, 1945-52. In 1952 he became secretary-treasurer of the Kagawa National Committee in Brooklyn, New York City. He was a deacon for life of the First Baptist Church in Rockville Center, New York, and on the Interboard Commiitte for Japan as a consultant. For ten years he was treasurer of the American School in Japan.
Mr. Fisher is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. Elizabeth Wray Biro, William Haigh Fisher, '41, and Henry Day Fisher, '43.
FISHER - Royal Haigh Fisher, 79, died at Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, on December 30, 1963. He was a semi-retired missionary. Royal Fisher was born in Tokyo, Japan, on September 20, 1884. A graduate of Kalamazoo College in 1906, he received the B.D. degree from the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology in 1913 and an M. A. from the University of Chicago in 1914. He studied also at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
On June 6, 1914, he and the former Josephine Basssett Wray, '13, were married. From 1914 to 1941 he served in Japan for the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. During the following three years he worked with its Home Missionary Society in Denver, Colorado. He was a member of the Foreign Missions Conference, Japan Committee, in New York City, 1945-52. In 1952 he became secretary-treasurer of the Kagawa National Committee in Brooklyn, New York City. He was a deacon for life of the First Baptist Church in Rockville Center, New York, and on the Interboard Commiitte for Japan as a consultant. For ten years he was treasurer of the American School in Japan.
Mr. Fisher is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. Elizabeth Wray Biro, William Haigh Fisher, '41, and Henry Day Fisher, '43.
Obituary clipping from unknown source transcribed by Susan Kimes Burgess August 2, 2005
FISHER - Royal Haigh Fisher, 79, died at Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, on December 30, 1963. He was a semi-retired missionary. Royal Fisher was born in Tokyo, Japan, on September 20, 1884. A graduate of Kalamazoo College in 1906, he received the B.D. degree from the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology in 1913 and an M. A. from the University of Chicago in 1914. He studied also at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
On June 6, 1914, he and the former Josephine Basssett Wray, '13, were married. From 1914 to 1941 he served in Japan for the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. During the following three years he worked with its Home Missionary Society in Denver, Colorado. He was a member of the Foreign Missions Conference, Japan Committee, in New York City, 1945-52. In 1952 he became secretary-treasurer of the Kagawa National Committee in Brooklyn, New York City. He was a deacon for life of the First Baptist Church in Rockville Center, New York, and on the Interboard Commiitte for Japan as a consultant. For ten years he was treasurer of the American School in Japan.
Mr. Fisher is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. Elizabeth Wray Biro, William Haigh Fisher, '41, and Henry Day Fisher, '43.
FISHER - Royal Haigh Fisher, 79, died at Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, on December 30, 1963. He was a semi-retired missionary. Royal Fisher was born in Tokyo, Japan, on September 20, 1884. A graduate of Kalamazoo College in 1906, he received the B.D. degree from the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology in 1913 and an M. A. from the University of Chicago in 1914. He studied also at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
On June 6, 1914, he and the former Josephine Basssett Wray, '13, were married. From 1914 to 1941 he served in Japan for the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. During the following three years he worked with its Home Missionary Society in Denver, Colorado. He was a member of the Foreign Missions Conference, Japan Committee, in New York City, 1945-52. In 1952 he became secretary-treasurer of the Kagawa National Committee in Brooklyn, New York City. He was a deacon for life of the First Baptist Church in Rockville Center, New York, and on the Interboard Commiitte for Japan as a consultant. For ten years he was treasurer of the American School in Japan.
Mr. Fisher is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. Elizabeth Wray Biro, William Haigh Fisher, '41, and Henry Day Fisher, '43.
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