Phyllis Mae Fisher

Phyllis Mae Richardson Fisher, 89, of Loving, New Mexico, passed away on February 13, 2026 in Carlsbad, New Mexico, in the Chihuahuan Desert.

A Celebration of Life will be held at 11am on March 7, 2026, at West Park Baptist Church, Pecos, Texas, with Pastor Rey Carreon officiating. Burial will be a private family ceremony.

Phyllis Mae was born May 14, 1936 on the Jagow Ranch in Arlington, Arizona, located in the Sonoran Desert. The doctor was from Buckeye so that is the place of birth on her birth certificate. Phyllis Mae was the seventh of eight children born to Walter Ray Richardson and Mary Nim Thompson Richardson. She graduated from Redmond High School in Redmond, Oregon in 1954 and graduated with an associate’s degree in Commercial Illustration and Design from Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, Oregon in 1957. Phyllis attended beauty college in Las Vegas, Nevada but when it went out of business she decided to join the Army, February 1, 1959. Phyllis Mae was outstanding trainee out of two platoons and acting sergeant in basic training at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Alabama, nestled in the Choccolocco Foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. She met George Harvey Fisher, an MP in the Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. After a courtship of 56 days, Phyllis Mae and George Harvey married December 1, 1959. She mustered out of the Army, April 20, 1960 and became a housewife raising her two children, Janey Loree and Douglas Wayne. She was a homemaker, published author and illustrator, a master gardener, painter and prayer warrior.

Phyllis Mae is preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, George Harvey; her father, Walter Ray; her mother, Mary Nim; her siblings, Mary Elizabeth, Shirley Ann, Elmer Ray, Walter Nim, and Marjorie Alice; her granddaughter, Christina Dawn, and her son-n-law, Shot Paschal.

Phyllis Mae is survived by her daughter Janey Loree Fisher Paschal of Loving, New Mexico, her son, Douglas Wayne Fisher of Quartzsite, Arizona, her brother, Reece Pinkney Richardson and his wife Lorene of Prineville, Oregon; her sister, Jessie Carol Ondusko of Browns Mills, New Jersey; her grandson Travis Lee Fisher and his fiancé, Shirley Wallace of Pecos, Texas; her grandson, Anthony Wayne Fisher and his wife Erin Adelle and their children, Scarlett Joyce, Garrett Wayne, and Elliette Loree of Pecos, Texas; her granddaughter, Melany Ann McQueen and her husband Jason and their children, Bishop, Eli, and Augustus of Phoenix, Arizona, and many nieces and nephews.

Honorary Pallbearers will be Douglas Wayne Fisher, Travis Lee Fisher, Anthony Wayne Fisher and Garrett Wayne Fisher.

The family of Phyllis Mae Richardson Fisher wish to express special thanks to Amy Chavez, FNP and Flight Nurse; the staff at GoodLife Senior Living and Memory Care 2; the staff at Enhabit Hospice of Carlsbad; Pecos Funeral Home; Pastor Rey of West Park Baptist who also married Shot & Janey Paschal, Anthony & Erin Fisher, and buried George Harvey Fisher and Byron Wayne “Shot” Paschal; to our family and friends on social media who kept Phyllis Mae lifted up through the last years of her life, to Ray & Vicki Trout of Carlsbad for sharing their guesthouse and to Jeanette Scott of Loving, New Mexico for her servant’s heart!!

Momma we miss you and love you to way out yonder and back again for eternity!!!