Eugene Warren Fisher.
Eugene Warren Fisher was born in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, July 9, 1865, and died August 2, 1918. April 8, 1903, he was united in marriage to Emma Esther Dempster. To them were born three daughters, Esther, Ruth and Dorothy.
In 1883, with his sisters, Elizabeth and Fanny, he united with the Congregational church of Chester Center, to which he gave a full consecrated allegience [sic] till called to the home above. He received his education in the Chester school and Grinnell college. After two years of college work he gave up his plans for further school work to take up the management of his mother’s farm. Though but nineteen years old he assumed the full responsibility of farm management, that he might lighten the burdens of a widowed mother’s responsibilities. In his work on the farm he applied himself with that persistent endeavor to realize the best that honest toil of hand and brain could produce, that he easily won for himself the honors of being one of the best farmers this county had ever known. One man, some years ago, remarked to the writer of this note, “that if he could choose between a four year’s course for his son at Iowa State College, or four years of training on the farm with ‘Gene’ Fisher, he would choose the latter.” To him every business transaction was a matter of conscience and he acted on the square. He put the religion he professed to a practical test in his business relations with the world.
For eight years we knew him as a parishioner who worked at his religion, the same practical planning and attention to detail that made him a successful farmer and business man was worked out in his religious and church life. Eugene Fisher could say, “I love Thy church, O God,” and to the church he united with thirty-five years ago, he gave without reserve his time and money. Every call for funds for the Master’s cause found in him a responsive friend. His duty to his church in whatever capacity he was called to serve, was as painstakingly performed as his duty on the farm or public life and the full measure of fifty-two Sundays a year was the duty he set for himself unless prevented by unavoidable causes.
He was public spirited and gave freely of his time and money to every enterprise which was for the public good. He was greatly interested in the school and endeavored in his years of public service in the schools to realize the best possible results.
He was a real home lover and a home maker, a man whose heart would never tire or grow old, a lover of children. He was a favorite with young people. Thus, in the midst of life’s duties, in the very center of life’s activities, he lay down his work.
He leaves a wife and three daughters, an aged mother (Mrs. Ellen Fisher of Grinnell), two sisters (Elizabeth and Fanny Fisher, also of Grinnell), with a host of relatives and friends to mourn his loss.
His voice is stilled, but the beauty of his life and character will continue to live in the life of his family, his church and in this community. The funeral services were conducted from the Chester Congregational church on Sunday afternoon, August 4, Rev. H. L. Wissler of Gilbert, Iowa, a former pastor, being in charge, assisted by Prof. Spencer, and the body was laid to rest in the Chester cemetery.
[Clipped from an unidentified Grinnell, Iowa newspaper with the date of Tuesday, August 6, 1918; Drake Community Library online obituary database, Grinnell, Iowa, Record No. 4823.]
Eugene Warren Fisher was born in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, July 9, 1865, and died August 2, 1918. April 8, 1903, he was united in marriage to Emma Esther Dempster. To them were born three daughters, Esther, Ruth and Dorothy.
In 1883, with his sisters, Elizabeth and Fanny, he united with the Congregational church of Chester Center, to which he gave a full consecrated allegience [sic] till called to the home above. He received his education in the Chester school and Grinnell college. After two years of college work he gave up his plans for further school work to take up the management of his mother’s farm. Though but nineteen years old he assumed the full responsibility of farm management, that he might lighten the burdens of a widowed mother’s responsibilities. In his work on the farm he applied himself with that persistent endeavor to realize the best that honest toil of hand and brain could produce, that he easily won for himself the honors of being one of the best farmers this county had ever known. One man, some years ago, remarked to the writer of this note, “that if he could choose between a four year’s course for his son at Iowa State College, or four years of training on the farm with ‘Gene’ Fisher, he would choose the latter.” To him every business transaction was a matter of conscience and he acted on the square. He put the religion he professed to a practical test in his business relations with the world.
For eight years we knew him as a parishioner who worked at his religion, the same practical planning and attention to detail that made him a successful farmer and business man was worked out in his religious and church life. Eugene Fisher could say, “I love Thy church, O God,” and to the church he united with thirty-five years ago, he gave without reserve his time and money. Every call for funds for the Master’s cause found in him a responsive friend. His duty to his church in whatever capacity he was called to serve, was as painstakingly performed as his duty on the farm or public life and the full measure of fifty-two Sundays a year was the duty he set for himself unless prevented by unavoidable causes.
He was public spirited and gave freely of his time and money to every enterprise which was for the public good. He was greatly interested in the school and endeavored in his years of public service in the schools to realize the best possible results.
He was a real home lover and a home maker, a man whose heart would never tire or grow old, a lover of children. He was a favorite with young people. Thus, in the midst of life’s duties, in the very center of life’s activities, he lay down his work.
He leaves a wife and three daughters, an aged mother (Mrs. Ellen Fisher of Grinnell), two sisters (Elizabeth and Fanny Fisher, also of Grinnell), with a host of relatives and friends to mourn his loss.
His voice is stilled, but the beauty of his life and character will continue to live in the life of his family, his church and in this community. The funeral services were conducted from the Chester Congregational church on Sunday afternoon, August 4, Rev. H. L. Wissler of Gilbert, Iowa, a former pastor, being in charge, assisted by Prof. Spencer, and the body was laid to rest in the Chester cemetery.
[Clipped from an unidentified Grinnell, Iowa newspaper with the date of Tuesday, August 6, 1918; Drake Community Library online obituary database, Grinnell, Iowa, Record No. 4823.]
Eugene Warren Fisher.
Eugene Warren Fisher was born in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, July 9, 1865, and died August 2, 1918. April 8, 1903, he was united in marriage to Emma Esther Dempster. To them were born three daughters, Esther, Ruth and Dorothy.
In 1883, with his sisters, Elizabeth and Fanny, he united with the Congregational church of Chester Center, to which he gave a full consecrated allegience [sic] till called to the home above. He received his education in the Chester school and Grinnell college. After two years of college work he gave up his plans for further school work to take up the management of his mother’s farm. Though but nineteen years old he assumed the full responsibility of farm management, that he might lighten the burdens of a widowed mother’s responsibilities. In his work on the farm he applied himself with that persistent endeavor to realize the best that honest toil of hand and brain could produce, that he easily won for himself the honors of being one of the best farmers this county had ever known. One man, some years ago, remarked to the writer of this note, “that if he could choose between a four year’s course for his son at Iowa State College, or four years of training on the farm with ‘Gene’ Fisher, he would choose the latter.” To him every business transaction was a matter of conscience and he acted on the square. He put the religion he professed to a practical test in his business relations with the world.
For eight years we knew him as a parishioner who worked at his religion, the same practical planning and attention to detail that made him a successful farmer and business man was worked out in his religious and church life. Eugene Fisher could say, “I love Thy church, O God,” and to the church he united with thirty-five years ago, he gave without reserve his time and money. Every call for funds for the Master’s cause found in him a responsive friend. His duty to his church in whatever capacity he was called to serve, was as painstakingly performed as his duty on the farm or public life and the full measure of fifty-two Sundays a year was the duty he set for himself unless prevented by unavoidable causes.
He was public spirited and gave freely of his time and money to every enterprise which was for the public good. He was greatly interested in the school and endeavored in his years of public service in the schools to realize the best possible results.
He was a real home lover and a home maker, a man whose heart would never tire or grow old, a lover of children. He was a favorite with young people. Thus, in the midst of life’s duties, in the very center of life’s activities, he lay down his work.
He leaves a wife and three daughters, an aged mother (Mrs. Ellen Fisher of Grinnell), two sisters (Elizabeth and Fanny Fisher, also of Grinnell), with a host of relatives and friends to mourn his loss.
His voice is stilled, but the beauty of his life and character will continue to live in the life of his family, his church and in this community. The funeral services were conducted from the Chester Congregational church on Sunday afternoon, August 4, Rev. H. L. Wissler of Gilbert, Iowa, a former pastor, being in charge, assisted by Prof. Spencer, and the body was laid to rest in the Chester cemetery.
[Clipped from an unidentified Grinnell, Iowa newspaper with the date of Tuesday, August 6, 1918; Drake Community Library online obituary database, Grinnell, Iowa, Record No. 4823.]
Eugene Warren Fisher was born in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, July 9, 1865, and died August 2, 1918. April 8, 1903, he was united in marriage to Emma Esther Dempster. To them were born three daughters, Esther, Ruth and Dorothy.
In 1883, with his sisters, Elizabeth and Fanny, he united with the Congregational church of Chester Center, to which he gave a full consecrated allegience [sic] till called to the home above. He received his education in the Chester school and Grinnell college. After two years of college work he gave up his plans for further school work to take up the management of his mother’s farm. Though but nineteen years old he assumed the full responsibility of farm management, that he might lighten the burdens of a widowed mother’s responsibilities. In his work on the farm he applied himself with that persistent endeavor to realize the best that honest toil of hand and brain could produce, that he easily won for himself the honors of being one of the best farmers this county had ever known. One man, some years ago, remarked to the writer of this note, “that if he could choose between a four year’s course for his son at Iowa State College, or four years of training on the farm with ‘Gene’ Fisher, he would choose the latter.” To him every business transaction was a matter of conscience and he acted on the square. He put the religion he professed to a practical test in his business relations with the world.
For eight years we knew him as a parishioner who worked at his religion, the same practical planning and attention to detail that made him a successful farmer and business man was worked out in his religious and church life. Eugene Fisher could say, “I love Thy church, O God,” and to the church he united with thirty-five years ago, he gave without reserve his time and money. Every call for funds for the Master’s cause found in him a responsive friend. His duty to his church in whatever capacity he was called to serve, was as painstakingly performed as his duty on the farm or public life and the full measure of fifty-two Sundays a year was the duty he set for himself unless prevented by unavoidable causes.
He was public spirited and gave freely of his time and money to every enterprise which was for the public good. He was greatly interested in the school and endeavored in his years of public service in the schools to realize the best possible results.
He was a real home lover and a home maker, a man whose heart would never tire or grow old, a lover of children. He was a favorite with young people. Thus, in the midst of life’s duties, in the very center of life’s activities, he lay down his work.
He leaves a wife and three daughters, an aged mother (Mrs. Ellen Fisher of Grinnell), two sisters (Elizabeth and Fanny Fisher, also of Grinnell), with a host of relatives and friends to mourn his loss.
His voice is stilled, but the beauty of his life and character will continue to live in the life of his family, his church and in this community. The funeral services were conducted from the Chester Congregational church on Sunday afternoon, August 4, Rev. H. L. Wissler of Gilbert, Iowa, a former pastor, being in charge, assisted by Prof. Spencer, and the body was laid to rest in the Chester cemetery.
[Clipped from an unidentified Grinnell, Iowa newspaper with the date of Tuesday, August 6, 1918; Drake Community Library online obituary database, Grinnell, Iowa, Record No. 4823.]
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