Maurice Parkin (Jake) Fisher
Jake died quietly in the Ottawa General Hospital of complications following pneumonia, on Aug. 13, 2011, aged 87, after a difficult year in Ottawa.
He was pre-deceased by his beloved wife of 55 years, Margery and their son, Alan.
Jake was a loving father to Judith (Keith Purchase) of West Vancouver, Michael (Karen Phinney) of Niagara and Halifax, Susan (David McKellar) of Ottawa and Sackville and Ian (Judith Cane) of Ottawa; and grandfather to his long-awaited and much-loved grandsons Sam Purchase, Colin Robertson and Sam Fisher. Jake is also survived by his elder sister Mary McOuat of Dartmouth and Sackville, his sisters-in-law Barbara Fisher of Halifax and Heather Seybold of Picton, his brother-in-law Davidson Campbell of Baltimore, and his cousins Ned and George Fisher and Nora Tapley, as well as a large extended family. His brother Peter died in 2005.
Jake grew up in Sackville, the son of Mary Kathleen (Fawcett) Fisher and Charles Maurice Parkin Fisher. Apart from boarding school at Bishops College School in Lennoxville and service during WW 2, he spent his life in Sackville and was content with the life it provided. There were happy memories of riding with his sister, pranks with his exuberant Fawcett cousins and sailing in Shediac. Later, he brought his bride Margery, a city girl from Montreal, to settle first on Park Street and later in the red house on the marsh. There they raised their five children and an assortment of golden retrievers, cats, horses, and cows. Jake also dabbled with farming, growing a variety of grains and was keenly interested in the potential of generating power from the Bay of Fundy tides.
Jake had a lengthy career with the Enterprise Foundry Company of Sackville and the Workman’s Compensation Board in Saint John. He was an avid Rotarian for 60 years, a Paul Harris Fellow several times, and had a keen interest in the history of the Maritimes. He attended McGill University but left when he and two school friends signed up together to join the war effort. Later he attended Mt. A and Khaki University, London, following service in WW 2.
Visitation will be held at Campbell’s Funeral Home on Friday, Aug. 19, 2011, from 7-9 p.m. The funeral service will be held at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Sackville, N.B., at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Sackville Rotary Club or The Rotary Foundation (Canada) would be greatly appreciated by the family c/o Campbell’s Funeral Home, 89 Bridge Street, Sackville, N.B. E4L 3P1.
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