Herald Fisher

Herald Vernon Fisher, 89, passed away peacefully in his sleep in the early morning hours of March 21, 2016. For nearly seven months, he had been in hospice care with congestive heart failure at the loving home of his son and daughter-in-law, Jay and Cindy Fisher.

He is survived by his three children, Jay, Gayle and Mark Fisher; four grandchildren and one great granddaughter. His wife, Dorothy Lenore Fisher, died of Alzheimer's disease in May 2009 after being cared for by her husband for several years.

Herald and his family of five moved to Las Vegas in 1963 from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Previously, he had lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and in southwest Iowa, where he was born in the town of Carlyle on November 3, 1926. At first, Herald worked for Metropolitan Life Insurance and then Prudential Insurance in Las Vegas before starting his own agency with Farmer's Insurance, where he worked until his retirement in 1989. To his colleagues, he was known as Ace. His great passion in life, besides his family, was bowling. At one time he belonged to five different teams and bowled almost every day of the week. He had four perfect games in a one-year period. Eventually, though, he gave up bowling because of his back and legs, but he was always talking about returning to that sport. Herald's early life was not easy. His father Lee died when he was six and his mother struggled to keep her four children until she could no longer do so. She eventually remarried, but not before she had given up the care of three of her children to orphanages, foster homes and adoption. Herald went from place to place, including Boy's Town, Nebraska, and eventually ended up on the farm of the Lundgren family in Iowa. He worked hard there as an extra farm hand, and he always remained grateful that this family was good to him. He served briefly in the Army just after World War II ended and later met the love of his life, Dorothy. They were married in 1950. Herald experienced what it was like to be part of a large family because his wife had seven siblings from the Klaus family in Ute, Iowa. Herald was stoic and never complained about any part of his life. When people commended him for how well he looked after his wife when she got Alzheimer's and never once bemoaned his fate, he merely said: ""She is my wife. We are in it for better or worse, and she would do the same for me if the situation were reversed."" His family will miss him and remember him forever.

A memorial service will be held at Davis Funeral Home and Memorial Park, 6200 S. Eastern Ave, Las Vegas, NV on April 2, 2016 at 1:00 pm.

Service

Davis Memorial Chapel
6200 S. Eastern Ave.
Las Vegas, NV  89119
Saturday, April 2, 2016
1:00 PM