Dorothy Anne Fisher

Dorothy Anne Fisher passed away Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. Graveside services will be 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15 at Oakwood Cemetery with the Rev. Walter Albers officiating. Burial will follow. Visitation will be 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey. A Memorial Service of Celebration will be 6 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church with Rev. Walter Albers officiating. Dorothy was born Dec. 31, 1921, in Summit, Ill., to Agnes and Martin A. Hesemann.She graduated from, and was confirmed, at St. Paul Lutheran School and Church in Chicago Heights, Ill. After graduating from Bloom Township High School, Chicago Heights, she attended Gregg Business College and also took night school classes at Northwestern University in Chicago. After working at the Flintkote Company in Chicago Heights for several years, she moved to St. Louis, Mo. to assume the position as Secretary to the Dean of Concordia Seminary where she met and then married the Rev. Walter F. Fisher June 15, 1947.Their parishes included Kirkwood, Mo. (12 years), Pasadena, Calif. (7 years), Elmhurst, Ill. (21 years), and upon retirement spent 10 years as Visitation Pastor at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Waco. Dorothy enjoyed athletics, woodworking, needlecraft, antiquing, traveling, symphony and chorale music (having played the flute herself), and the duties of homemaking. She was preceded in death by her sister, Edith Fischer of Yonkers, N.Y.; brothers, Arnold Hesemann, Richard Hesemann, and Paul Hesemann. She is survived by her loving husband of 63 years; daughter, Ruth Ann and husband, John Lestock, of Powderly, Texas; son, Thomas Mark and wife, Rosemarie Fisher, of Mexia; six grandchildren, granddaughter, Emily and husband, Richard Travis Ransom and their children Jay Coyt and Lucy Eleanor, of Atlanta, Texas; grandsons, Alexander Lestock and his wife, Allison, of Dallas, Paul Fisher, and Jacob Fisher, granddaughters, Laura Fisher and Rebecca Fisher, all of Mexia. her sisters-in-law, Wilma Hesemann, Ruth Hesemann, Rosemary Hesemann, and Dorothy Wuertz of Leguna Hills, Calif.; her brother, Frederick Hesemann; sisters, Ruth and husband, the Rev. James Dishop of Naples, Fla., and Elsie Hanke of Bridgeman, Mich.; and many nieces and nephews. The family invites you to leave a message or memory in our "Memorial Guestbook" at www.WilkirsonHatchBailey.com. December 31, 1921 - November 12, 2010 Sign the Guest Book at www.wacotrib.com