Florid Funeral
A random obituary came over one of my Michigan watchlists a few minutes ago for a 79-year-old woman named Loretta Gump Fisher. I clicked it, and ya know, the last Ms. Gump Fisher has the most interestingly named family I think I've heard outside of fiction (or Mormons). I don't know any of these people and I feel like I can write a whole novel based on the interlaced and curliqued names alone.
Loretta Gump Fisher Loretta Gump Fisher, 79, passed away due to injuries sustained in a fall. She departed this life on September 19, 2006, surrounded by family. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and lived most of her life in Kent, Ohio. Loretta was a 1941 graduate of St. Patrick Elementary School, Kent, and a 1945 graduate of Kent State University High School. Loretta married the love of her life, Thomas H. Fisher, in 1947. She was the mother of 10 children and was preceded in death by her first child, Michael Gaylord. Loretta is survived by loving husband, Tom, and nine children: Rick (Barb) Fisher of Dexter, Michigan; Bob (Nancy Federspiel) of Menlo Park, California; Andy (Denise) Fisher of Moose, Wyoming; Sue Ellen (Rouven) Cyncynatus of Twinsburg; Barb (Jim) Boltz of Kent; Mary Jo (Stan) McGee of Colbert, Washington; Judith (Bill Rees) of Columbus; Mike (Ginny) Fisher of Stow; and Lesa (Eric) Samblanet of Pelham, AL. Loretta leaves behind 23 grandchildren: L. Scott Fisher, Zoe Fisher Schroeder, James Fisher, Tara Kendall, Emily Fisher, Zachary Fisher, Eric Kohlmiller, Megan Fisher, Kyle Fisher, Kristin Cyncynatus, Heather Lipinski, Dan Lipinski, Julia (Boltz) Bailey, Janna (Boltz) Barbour, Zachery McGee, Charlaine McGee, Vincent McGee, William Rees, Riley Rees, Haley Rees, Jackson Rees, Andre Samblanet and Luc Samblanet. Loretta and Tom were proud to have six great grandchildren: Tristan Feher, Haley Schroeder, Tyler Schroeder, James Fisher, Parker Fisher and Anderson Bailey. Lorettas brothers and sisters survive her: Bernadette (Carl, deceased) Griggy of Lawrence, Kansas, Gerald (Anita) Gump of Kent, John Gump of Stow, Ida Mae Morson of Kennesaw, Georgia, and Karen (Jim) Roach of Fort Worth, Texas. Loretta was preceded in death by her parents, William Gaylord and Nellie Avalena Meagher Gump.
This entry was posted by jb, on
September 17, 2006.
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The woman in question, the late Mrs. Fisher, is my sister-in-law's grandmother. I was just researching this line of her family, and your blog seems to contain one of the only electronic reproductions of this particular obituary. Without knowing it, you preserved a critically important shard of research for my extended family. That, perhaps, can be the start of your aforementioned novella-in-your-head. ^_^ Cheers.
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