HARLAND L. FISHER
Les Fisher Is Stricken at Farm Bureau Meeting VALDERS
H.L. (Les) Fisher, 64, organizational director of the Manitowoc County Farm Bureau and active in farming and dairying in the county for 40 years, died unexpectedly Wednesday evening. He was attending a Meeme Farm Bureau meeting at Kulen Hall at Edwards, on the Sheboygan County line in Meeme, and had taken a movie projector into the hall preparatory to showing films at a Christmas party of the bureau when he was stricken with a heart attack.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Our Saviors Lutheran Church. The Rev. A.B. Holland will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.
He was born in Vernon County Feb. 9, 1890, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Fisher. He attended (photo) schools in that county and enrolled in the agriculture short course at the University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated in 1913.
Locating in Manitowoc County he set up the first farm milk testing association in the vicinity of Valders and in 1915 married Miss Elsie Horstmann of Liberty. He purchased a farm in Liberty, which he operated from 1915 to 1944.
In that span he served as a town supervisor, town clerk for many years and also was on the board of the Roselawn School in Liberty. He was a charter member of the county Farm Bureau and in later years was named organizational director, a position he held until his death. He was
familiarly known among bureau members as "Les."
He was editor and publisher of the Farm Bureau News, in Valders, a monthly publication which went to all county members and also had a weekly radio program over Station WWOC. Fisher was also a member of the Valders Lions Club and the Lutheran Brotherhood.
Surviving are his wife of Valders; two sons, Lawrence of Valders and Burdette of Kiel; brother, Perl of Spring Green, Wis.; five sisters, Mrs. Ethel Casperson of Viroqua, Wis., Mrs. Velma Phillips of Wauwautosa, Mrs. Iva Clift of Baraboo, Mrs. Esther Smith of Onalaska, Wis., and Mrs.
Margaret Simpson of Milwaukee; and six grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Berge Funeral Home after 2 p.m. Friday. The casket will be moved to the church at 10 a.m. Saturday where the body will lie in state until the hour of service.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Manitowoc, Wis. Thursday, December 2, 1954 P. 33
Les Fisher Is Stricken at Farm Bureau Meeting VALDERS
H.L. (Les) Fisher, 64, organizational director of the Manitowoc County Farm Bureau and active in farming and dairying in the county for 40 years, died unexpectedly Wednesday evening. He was attending a Meeme Farm Bureau meeting at Kulen Hall at Edwards, on the Sheboygan County line in Meeme, and had taken a movie projector into the hall preparatory to showing films at a Christmas party of the bureau when he was stricken with a heart attack.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Our Saviors Lutheran Church. The Rev. A.B. Holland will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.
He was born in Vernon County Feb. 9, 1890, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Fisher. He attended (photo) schools in that county and enrolled in the agriculture short course at the University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated in 1913.
Locating in Manitowoc County he set up the first farm milk testing association in the vicinity of Valders and in 1915 married Miss Elsie Horstmann of Liberty. He purchased a farm in Liberty, which he operated from 1915 to 1944.
In that span he served as a town supervisor, town clerk for many years and also was on the board of the Roselawn School in Liberty. He was a charter member of the county Farm Bureau and in later years was named organizational director, a position he held until his death. He was
familiarly known among bureau members as "Les."
He was editor and publisher of the Farm Bureau News, in Valders, a monthly publication which went to all county members and also had a weekly radio program over Station WWOC. Fisher was also a member of the Valders Lions Club and the Lutheran Brotherhood.
Surviving are his wife of Valders; two sons, Lawrence of Valders and Burdette of Kiel; brother, Perl of Spring Green, Wis.; five sisters, Mrs. Ethel Casperson of Viroqua, Wis., Mrs. Velma Phillips of Wauwautosa, Mrs. Iva Clift of Baraboo, Mrs. Esther Smith of Onalaska, Wis., and Mrs.
Margaret Simpson of Milwaukee; and six grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Berge Funeral Home after 2 p.m. Friday. The casket will be moved to the church at 10 a.m. Saturday where the body will lie in state until the hour of service.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Manitowoc, Wis. Thursday, December 2, 1954 P. 33
HARLAND L. FISHER
Les Fisher Is Stricken at Farm Bureau Meeting VALDERS
H.L. (Les) Fisher, 64, organizational director of the Manitowoc County Farm Bureau and active in farming and dairying in the county for 40 years, died unexpectedly Wednesday evening. He was attending a Meeme Farm Bureau meeting at Kulen Hall at Edwards, on the Sheboygan County line in Meeme, and had taken a movie projector into the hall preparatory to showing films at a Christmas party of the bureau when he was stricken with a heart attack.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Our Saviors Lutheran Church. The Rev. A.B. Holland will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.
He was born in Vernon County Feb. 9, 1890, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Fisher. He attended (photo) schools in that county and enrolled in the agriculture short course at the University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated in 1913.
Locating in Manitowoc County he set up the first farm milk testing association in the vicinity of Valders and in 1915 married Miss Elsie Horstmann of Liberty. He purchased a farm in Liberty, which he operated from 1915 to 1944.
In that span he served as a town supervisor, town clerk for many years and also was on the board of the Roselawn School in Liberty. He was a charter member of the county Farm Bureau and in later years was named organizational director, a position he held until his death. He was
familiarly known among bureau members as "Les."
He was editor and publisher of the Farm Bureau News, in Valders, a monthly publication which went to all county members and also had a weekly radio program over Station WWOC. Fisher was also a member of the Valders Lions Club and the Lutheran Brotherhood.
Surviving are his wife of Valders; two sons, Lawrence of Valders and Burdette of Kiel; brother, Perl of Spring Green, Wis.; five sisters, Mrs. Ethel Casperson of Viroqua, Wis., Mrs. Velma Phillips of Wauwautosa, Mrs. Iva Clift of Baraboo, Mrs. Esther Smith of Onalaska, Wis., and Mrs.
Margaret Simpson of Milwaukee; and six grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Berge Funeral Home after 2 p.m. Friday. The casket will be moved to the church at 10 a.m. Saturday where the body will lie in state until the hour of service.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Manitowoc, Wis. Thursday, December 2, 1954 P. 33
Les Fisher Is Stricken at Farm Bureau Meeting VALDERS
H.L. (Les) Fisher, 64, organizational director of the Manitowoc County Farm Bureau and active in farming and dairying in the county for 40 years, died unexpectedly Wednesday evening. He was attending a Meeme Farm Bureau meeting at Kulen Hall at Edwards, on the Sheboygan County line in Meeme, and had taken a movie projector into the hall preparatory to showing films at a Christmas party of the bureau when he was stricken with a heart attack.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Our Saviors Lutheran Church. The Rev. A.B. Holland will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.
He was born in Vernon County Feb. 9, 1890, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Fisher. He attended (photo) schools in that county and enrolled in the agriculture short course at the University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated in 1913.
Locating in Manitowoc County he set up the first farm milk testing association in the vicinity of Valders and in 1915 married Miss Elsie Horstmann of Liberty. He purchased a farm in Liberty, which he operated from 1915 to 1944.
In that span he served as a town supervisor, town clerk for many years and also was on the board of the Roselawn School in Liberty. He was a charter member of the county Farm Bureau and in later years was named organizational director, a position he held until his death. He was
familiarly known among bureau members as "Les."
He was editor and publisher of the Farm Bureau News, in Valders, a monthly publication which went to all county members and also had a weekly radio program over Station WWOC. Fisher was also a member of the Valders Lions Club and the Lutheran Brotherhood.
Surviving are his wife of Valders; two sons, Lawrence of Valders and Burdette of Kiel; brother, Perl of Spring Green, Wis.; five sisters, Mrs. Ethel Casperson of Viroqua, Wis., Mrs. Velma Phillips of Wauwautosa, Mrs. Iva Clift of Baraboo, Mrs. Esther Smith of Onalaska, Wis., and Mrs.
Margaret Simpson of Milwaukee; and six grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Berge Funeral Home after 2 p.m. Friday. The casket will be moved to the church at 10 a.m. Saturday where the body will lie in state until the hour of service.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Manitowoc, Wis. Thursday, December 2, 1954 P. 33
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