Published September 02, 2008 08:50 am -
Nellie Katherine Fisher
TAHLEQUAH – Services for Nellie Katherine Fisher, 88, of Peggs will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3 at Peggs Community Church with Revs. Rex Hendrickson and Bobby Long officiating.
Nellie was born April 22, 1920 in Peggs to Jim and Etta Reel. She went to her heavenly home on Sunday, Aug. 31 with her family by her bedside.
Nellie was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph Fisher, her parents, two sons, Leyon Fisher and Ralph Junior Fisher, two great-grandsons, Charles Fisher and Joshua Baker. Also preceding her in death was four sisters and three brothers; May, Claythel, Bertha, Eethel and Virgil, Herb and baby boy Reel.
She is survived by five children: Sheila Thompson and husband Herman, Teresa Thompson and husband Steve, Lacy Fisher and wife Lola, Delmar Fisher and wife Fonda, and Faye Robbins and husband Richard. She also leaves 18 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great grandchildren. She loved each and every one of them and always made them feel special. She was known to her daughters-in-law as the world’s greatest mother-in-law.
Nellie worked many years as cook at Shiloh School, then at the Davis Nursing Home as a nurse’s aide before retiring when her health began to fail.
She loved making quilts for each new grandchild. She was a loving, caring person who found good in everyone she met. She will be missed by everyone who knew her.
Pallbearers will be Christian Smith, Ross Robbins, Jeremy Jones, Robbie Fisher, Ryan Fisher and Monty Robbins II.
Honorary pallbearers will be Josh and Justin Fisher, Gary Fisher, Nick Davis, Tyler Thompson, Gary Davis, Shane Scott, Dylan Andrews and Zack Phillips.
Interment will be at the New Home Cemetery, south of Peggs.
Reed-Culver Funeral Home, 117 W. Delaware, 456-2551