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.