CLASS OF 1952

DECEMBER 27, 1933 - OCTOBER 26, 1995

Funeral services for Ray Fisher were held at the First Baptist Church in Trenton. Dr. Clyde Elder and Rev. Jean Osborn officiated. Burial was in Resthaven Memorial Gardens, north of Trenton.

A Masonic service was held at the Whitaker-Eads Funeral Home in Trenton.

Mr. Fisher, 61, died October 26,1995 at the Sunnyview Nursing Home in Trenton. He was born December 27, 1933 in Winfield, KS, the son of Charles and Myrtle Weaver Fiahser. 

He graduated from Osawatomie High School with the Class of 1952, and received an AA degree from Trenton Junior College. He worked for the Rock Island Railroad from 1969 to1982. He was also a Licensed Minister and had served the Union Baptist Church and the Brimson Baptist Church in Trenton.

Mr. Fisher was a member of the First Baptist Church and the First Christian Church, both of Trenton, and Trenton Masonic Lodge. He was active in scouting in Trenton for many years, and served as assistant scoutmaster for Troop 99, sponsored by Wesley United Methodist Church in 1966 and 1969.  He was scoutmaster of Troop 99 in 1967 and 1968, as was assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 95, sponsored by the First Baptist Church in 1972. Mr. Fisher was scoutmaster of Troop 95 from 1971 to 1975.

Mr. Fisher was a committee member of Troop 95 in1976, 1977, 1981, and 1982, and was committee chairman of Troop 95 from1978 tto 1980. Her was a committee member from 1990 to the present of Troop 97, sponsored by the First Christian Church.

Mr. Fisher received several awards in scouting, including the Boy Scout Leader Training Award, Scouter’s Key, Commissioner’s Key, Wood Badge, Cub Scout and Boy Scout, and the District Award of Merit in 1990.  He had served as Chairman of  District Roundtables, served on District Show and Do Cub Scout Pow Wow, and was unit leader to the National Jamboree in 1951.  He served on Staff Council Adult Leaders Basic Training from 1985 to 1990, and served on the Wood Badge staff in 1991

Survivors include his mother, Myrtle Weaver of Hillsboro, OR, two half brothers, Russell Weaver of Reno, NV and Calvin Weaver of Wichita, KS; three half sisters, Margarette Cox of Chilhowee, Minnie Shuman of Hillsboro, and Frances Raymond of Portland, OR.