Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Fisher, Mary Arvilla (Wilkes) 2008
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Hastings Reminder, 18 Oct 2008

Mary Arvilla Fisher was born July 3, 1913, to Edward and Irene Wilkes.  She
passed away Saturday, October 11, 2008 at Hillside Acres at the age of 95.  She
attended both Hastings and Nashville schools.  She met Royal Sheppard Fisher and
they were married on April 10, 1937.  They lived in Lake Odessa until 1945 at
which time they moved to Hastings.

Mary started study at County Normal School to become a teacher about 1948.  She
went on to finish her various degrees, including her master’s, at Western
Michigan University in Kalamazoo.  Mary taught at the Little Brick School,
Quimby School, Dowling School, Freeport School and Thornapple Kellogg School in
Middleville.

She belonged to the Eastern Star and Daughters of the Nile.  Mary also belonged
to the First United Methodist Church in Hastings and taught Sunday school and
youth groups.  She was very active with church in the 1940s and 1950s.

Mary went through many tough times throughout her life.  Cancer was one of the
biggest battles.  She was a survivor through and through – she outlived most of
her physicians, as she promised she would.  Dementia took its toll and during
the last few years she was not the same.  She resided at Hillside Acres where
they took excellent care of her for about two and a half years.

Mary leaves behind one daughter, Nola (Tom) Edwards.  She had four
grandchildren, Sandra (Mike) Fox, Scott (Jayne) Edwards, Kim (Tim) Voshell and
Julie Edwards (Scott) Mullarkey.  She had nine grandchildren, Alex Fox, Jerin
and Justin Voshell, Christopher, Kelcey and Tiffany Edwards, Aleah and Lauren
Mullarkey.  She has many nieces and nephews also.

“I recently met two of mother’s students.  They told me how much they enjoyed
mother.  They said she was one teacher that was not in the profession for money
that she really cared about the students.  They enjoyed being in her classes,”
states her daughter Nola.  She was loved by all that met her and will be missed
by all that knew her.

Visitation and funeral services were held on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at the
Lauer Family Funeral Homes-Wren Chapel, 1401 N. Broadway in Hastings, followed
by interment in Fuller Cemetery.


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