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Eugene Earl Fischer

1918 - 1990

 

Eugene Fischer

Fort Collins, Colo. - Marshfield native Eugene E. Fischer, 72, Fort Collins, Colo., died Dec. 18 at Poudre Valley Hospital.

Services were Dec. 21 at Faith Evangelical Free Church, Fort Collins, with the Revs. James E. Olson, Forest Saylor and Edmund Kuppinger officiating. Burial was in Resthaven Memory Gardens, Fort Collins.

He was born Aug. 25, 1918, in Marshfield, and lived here until he entered the service. He was in the U.S. Army for 4 1/2 years and served during World War II in the Pacific. He was wounded on Okinawa. He married Grace M. Franke Aug. 2, 1947, in Chicago.

He moved to Fort Collins from Iowa in 1960. He was a retired teacher and had taught at Fort Collins High School for three years. He also worked as a carpenter.

He was a member of Faith Evangelical Free Church and the Christian Business Men's Association.

He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Susan Carpenter of Kenya and Carol Bizel of Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico; three sons, Jerry of Miami Springs, Fla., and John and Glenn, both of Loveland, Colo.; one sister, Nelda Swenson of Marshfield; two brothers, Melvin of Oshkosh and Maynard of Emerado, N.D.; and six grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Faith Evangelical Free Church Building Fund in care of Warren-Bohlender Funeral Chapel, Fort Collins.

source: News-Herald, Marshfield, Wisconsin, 28 Dec 1990, page 9, column 2

 

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