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Funeral services for William B. Fisher, 73, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday, October 8, at the Buchanan Memorial Chapel. Rev. C.R. Franklin will officiate.

Interment will be in the Okmulgee Cemetery under the direction of Buchanan-Wise-McClendon Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be members of the VFW Post 1189.

Mr. Fisher died October 5 in the V.A. Hospital at Muskogee. He was born November 7, 1910 in Chelsea, OK. His residence was 1300 N. Oklahoma, and was a retired painter and carpenter.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and a member of the Grace Assembly Church.

Survivors include Hazel Bonham Fisher, of the home, a step-son, Virgil Lee Bonham, Okmulgee, four sisters, Sylvia Ullom, Alice Price, Marjorie Atkins, Okmulgee, and Marie Lee, Project City, KS, three brothers, J.W. Fisher, Chanute, KS, L.R. (Bud) Fisher, Henryetta, and Paul Fisher, Redding, CA, 3 step-grandchildren.”

Okmulgee Daily Times. 7 Oct 1984; Pg 2