Floy Jean Fisher

Floy Jean Crabtree Fisher was born on September 17, 1925 near St. Francis, Kansas to Frank and Bessie Mae Bartlett Crabtree and died Nov. 8, 2012 at her home in Haigler, NE.

She lived in the St. Francis, KS and Parks, NE areas during her younger days graduating from 8th grade with all the rural schools in a ceremony held in the St. Francis school auditorium in the spring of 1940.  She went on to graduate from Shelton Academy in Shelton, Nebraska in 1944 and attend Union College in Lincoln, NE.

A roller skating accident sent her home from college where she met Owney C. Fisher of Wray, CO.  By late summer she and Owney had set a wedding date.  On September 4, 1945 they were united in marriage in an outdoor ceremony near Estes Park, CO.  Together they farmed and ranched 15 miles south of Wray along Willow Creek until 1997.  During those years they spent two years in the Olathe, CO area and three years in Lincoln, NE where their sons were attending college.

Floy and Owney had three children, Melvin, Garry and Sharna all of Wray, CO.  After the children were grown Floy spent almost 15 years working at Coop in Wray, CO before retiring.  A few weeks after retiring she applied for an accounting position and worked another four years until Owney’s health began to fail.

After her husband’s death in 1997, she moved to Haigler, NE to care for her sister and brother.  She became Haigler’s news correspondent to the surrounding area newspapers, wrote numerous poems many of which have been published, played the piano and organ for her church, and did some traveling in the eastern, southern & western parts of the United States.

Floy is preceded in death by her husband, Owney, her parents, Frank & Bessie Crabtree, her brother, Lloyd Crabtree, sister, Ethel Rath, and great granddaughter, Connie Puente.

Survivors include AliceGregory,  son Melvin and Norma and family Peter (Shirley), Robert (Lenea) and Heidi Fisher; son Garry and Sharon and family Jonathan (Wendy) and Chere Fisher; daughter Sharna and Richard Richardson and family Sonja(Micheal) Howes and  Tonja Chapin as well as great grandchildren Austin Howes, Chasidy Bernhardt, Colby Dillon, and Christian Chapin, Melody and Hannah Fisher, Taylar  and Reed  Fisher.

Many nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 11:00 a.m. at the Beecher Island Sunday School in Beecher Island, Colorado. Interment was held in the Grandview Cemetery in Wray, Colorado. Memorial contributions may be made to McCook Hospice, 407 W. Fifth Street, McCook, Nebraska 69001. Spellman-Schmidt Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.