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 Charles Harold (Hap) Fisher, Ph.D., 104, of Roanoke, died Friday, May 13, 2011. He was born November 20, 1906, in Hiawatha, W.Va., and was a chemist, technologist, author and philanthropist. He earned a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Roanoke College in 1928, master of science in chemistry in 1929 from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1932, also from the University of Illinois. Dr. Fisher led a long and distinguished career that included playing tenor banjo in a dance band, teaching chemistry at the University of Illinois, conducting industrial chemical research at Pennsylvania Coal Products Co., teaching organic chemistry at Harvard, investigating production of liquid fuels and chemicals with the U.S. Bureau of Mines, was a research leader at the USDA Eastern Regional Research Center in Philadelphia, was the Director of the USDA Southern Regional Research Center in New Orleans for 22 years and finally returning to Roanoke College in 1972 as a Adjunct Research Professor. He was a U.S. delegate to the 17th Conference of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry at Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden, and was awarded honorary doctoral degrees by both Tulane College and Roanoke College. He was a recipient of the Herty Medal, the Southern Chemist Award, was named Chemical Pioneer by the American Institute of Chemists, named a Pioneer in Polymer Science by Polymer News, received the USDA's Superior Services Award, the Presidential Citation of Merit by the American Institute of Chemists and the Roanoke College Medal. He was named Honorary Comptroller for the State of Louisiana in 1966 and was a Distinguished Alumni at Roanoke College. In 1990 the Charles H. Fisher Lecture Series was established by Roanoke College, in 1996 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Salem Educational Foundation, in 2002, the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry at Roanoke College was named in his honor and he became a foundation member of the Roanoke College Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 2004. Dr. Fisher's record also includes more than 200 publications and 72 patents. His biography is included in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, England's Outstanding Scientist of the 21st Century, the International Who's Who of Intellectuals and England's Outstanding Scientists.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Lawrence Daniel Fisher and Mary Akers Fisher; former spouses, Nona Elizabeth Dye and Lois Electa Carline; four brothers, Herman E. Fisher, Leroy Fisher, Lawrence D. Fisher Jr. and Robert S. Fisher; a niece, Barbara Rowell Hume; and two nephews, Robert S. Rowell and Herman E. "Mickey" Fisher Jr.
He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Snyder Kiser Fisher; a sister, Helen Rowell Miller; his brother, Dr. Richard H. Fisher; and nieces and nephews, Richard H. Fisher Jr., Roberts W. Fisher, James D. Fisher, Anne F. Andrews, Gwynn F. Derrick, Amy F. Miles, Charles H. Fisher II, Henry F. Fisher, Charles H. Fisher III, Elizabeth Terry, Stephen M. Fisher, Thomas B. Fisher, William F. Fisher, Jack O. Rowell Jr., Janet R. Driscoll and Lawrence F. Rowell.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 18, 2011, at the Chapel of John M. Oakey & Son Funeral Home, Salem. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at the funeral home. An online guest book is available for family and friends by visiting www.johnmoakey.com.
John M. Oakey & Son Funeral Home and Cremation Service is serving the Fisher family.
Published in Roanoke Times on May 16, 2011
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