Mabel Fisher, 94, died June 17 at the Good Shepherd Home.

Mary Mabel Porter was born to William Lewis and Otie Judea Porter in a sod house at Culbertson, September 30, 1892.

The next year, drought forced the Porters to leave their western homestead and return to Pappinsville, Missouri.

The following spring, they drove their covered wagon back to their homestead and this was their home until they moved York in 1910.

She graduated with honors from York College and taught school in York County for four years.

On May 5, 1917, she was united in marriage with Manley Ray Fisher at Seward.

To this union was born four children.

They resided in Omaha for one year and returned to York County where they farmed until 1937 when they moved to Blair to continue farming until 1945.

Mrs. Fisher was baptized in the Frenchman River, Hayes County, in 1902.

She was a faithful member of Blair Congregational United Church of Christ. She was a member of Women’s Congregational Fellowship, Hillside Extension Club and Women’s Blair Memorial Community Hospital Auxiliary.

She is survived by son, Wayne M. Fisher, Rogers, Arkansas; daughters, Mary Margaret Peter, Wichita, Kansas and Jean Flynn, Blair, Nebraska; 16 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild; sister, Otie Ress, Seward.

She was preceded in death by her husband; son, Colonel Paul Fisher; grandson, David Peter; one brother and two sisters.

Funeral was Friday, June 19 at Blair Congregational United Church of Christ. Burial was at Blair Cemetery.

Memorials to Blair Congregational UCC Church or Good Shepherd Home.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library~~~