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Elayne Fisher
ELAYNE FISHER
Cedar Rapids
Elayne M. Fisher CSR, 86, a resident of Cottage Grove Place, died there Friday, June 13, 2014, after a brief illness. Services: 3 p.m. Tuesday at Cedar Memorial Park Chapel of Memories. The Rev. Brenda Ehret will officatie. Bur-ial: Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at Cedar Memorial Park Funeral Home from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday.
Survivors include a son, Martin (Michele); four
daughters, Melinda Fisher, Amy (Robert L.) Wyman, Ann Fisher and Melanie L. Fisher Doyle, all of Cedar Rapids; and grandchildren, Sarah, Jack and Nicole Carver, Mitchell and Meredith Fisher, Connor, James and Addison Lee Doyle and Kelly Wyman.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard, and a sister, Ann Wright.
Elayne was born March 23, 1928, in What Cheer, Iowa, the daughter of Edwin and Hildred Rickey Miller. She attended the University of Arizona and graduated from the University of Iowa. She married Richard J. Fisher on Dec. 11, 1949, in Cedar Rapids. Richard died in 1985.
Elayne was the first woman president of the Cedar Rapids Symphony board, where she also was president of its Women's Committee. She was a member of the City Planning Commission, Cedar Rapids Water Ski Team and co-founder of the Fisher Group Companies.
Elayne was a certified shorthand reporter (CSR), working in the Sixth Judicial District in Linn County for the Honorable Paul Kilburg.
She volunteered for both St. Luke's and Mercy Medical Center auxiliaries, Cerebral Palsy Center, J.D.R.F. and was a lifelong member of the Unity Center of Cedar Rapids, where she was vice president and founding member of the Unity of Cedar Rapids "Community Food Bank."
Elayne was an avid traveler throughout Europe and Asia, including China, Hong Kong, Egypt, Peru, the Galapagos Islands, the Rock of Gibraltar, Czecholovakia and Monaco. She also was a resident of London, WCIBJA United Kingdom. Besides her extensive travels, she was an accomplished seamstress, Master Gardener and master shopper.
Memorial donations may be given to the Unity Center of Cedar Rapids, Community Food Bank and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, P.O. Box 3026, Cedar Rapids, IA 50406 in Elayne Fisher's memory.
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