Robert A. Fisher, 76, of 101-6th St., Tyrone, died at 11:10 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 11, 2005 at the Altoona Regional Health System, Bon Secours Campus.
\nHe was born July, 4, 1928 in Alexandria, PA, a son of Arnold Reynolds and Martha (Miller) Fisher.
\nHe was married Dec. 18, 1948 in Tyrone to Dorothy J. Jones who died July 5, 1981.
\nHe was a resident of Tyrone since 1937.
\nHe is survived by one daughter and three sons: Judith A. Chandler and her husband Terry of Tyrone; Richard E. Fisher and his wife Karen of Hudson, FL.; William L. Fisher and his wife Cathy of Emmett, ID and Robert D. Fisher of West Virginia.
\nShe is also survived by 15 grandchildren and many great grandchildren; a brother, James A. Fisher and his wife Eleanor of Warriors Mark and a longtime companion, Vivian White of Tyrone.
\nHe was a graduate of Tyrone High School in 1946 and an Army Veteran of WW II and served in the 104th Cavalry.
\nMr. Fisher was a life member of the Tyrone Sportmen\u2019s Club, the Bald Eagle Sportmen Assn. and the Hookies Fire Co. He was also a member of the Bucky Fisher Mystic Order of Groundhog Hunter and a life member of the VFW #4559, the Nat\u2019l Rifle Assn. and other gun organizations. In addition, he was a member of the Gun Owners of America Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, a member of the 2nd Amendment Foundation, the AARP and the Raystown Striper Club. He was an avid hunter.
\nHe retired in August 1990 as a papermaker from Westvaco, Tyrone after 33 years of service.
\nFuneral services and flag presentation will be held Monday, Feb. 14 at 2 p.m. at the Derman Funeral Home, Inc., Tyrone with the Rev. Mark Brown officiating. Interment will be at Bald Eagle Cemetery.
\nFriends were received at the funeral home on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Robert A. Fisher, 76, of 101-6th St., Tyrone, died at 11:10 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 11, 2005 at the Altoona Regional Health System, Bon Secours Campus. He was born July, 4, 1928 in Alexandria, PA, a son of Arnold Reynolds and Martha (Miller) Fisher. He was married Dec. 18, 1948 in Tyrone to Dorothy J. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}