Fisher, Lynden Staats

Passed: 1971-09-17

Age: 53

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Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1971-09-24

Information: Lynden Staats Fisher, president of Long and Fisher Funeral Home Inc. in Charleston and Pocatalico, died Friday.  Mr. Fisher, 53, died at St. Francis Hospital after a short illness.  A member of a pioneer family of Sissonville, Mr. Fisher became affiliated with the funeral home in 1941.  A world War II veteran, he was a member of the commission of West Virginia Post Mortem Examiners, Capital District Funeral Directors Assn., West Virginia Funeral Directors Assn., and National Funeral Directors Assn.  He was a Mason, a Shriner and a member of the Coonskin Skeet Club, a director of the National Skeet Shooting Assn., a member of the Huntington Gun Club, Amateur Trap Shooting Assn., Moose Lodge and Junior Order of United American Mechanics.  Mr. Fisher attended VMI and West Virginia University and was a graduate of Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science.  Surviving:  wife, Wilda Kelley Fisher; sons, James K. of Charleston, John M. at home; sister, Mrs. Richard Pence of Parkersburg and brothers, Dr. Loren L. Fisher of Detroit and James Galtha Fisher of Charleston.  Funeral and burial services were held Monday.