Memorial

Elayne M. Fisher CSR, 86, a resident of Cottage Grove Place died there on Friday after a brief illness. Services at 3:00 PM on Tuesday at the Cedar Memorial Park Chapel of Memories. Rev. Brenda Ehret will officatie. Burial at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the Cedar Memorial Park Funeral Home from 5 to 8 PM on 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; grandchildren are 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 on March 23, 1928 in What Cheer, IA the daughter of Edwin and Hildred Rickey Miller. She attended the University of Arizona and graduated from the University of Iowa College of English. She married Richard J. Fisher on December 11, 1949 in Cedar Rapids. Richard died in 1985.

Elayne was the first woman President of the Cedar Rapids Symphony Board where she was also President of their 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 short hand 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 Hospital Auxiliaries, Cerebral Palsy Center, J.D.R.F. and a lifelong member of the Unity Center of Cedar Rapids, where she was Vice President and founding member of the Unity of Cedar Rapids “Committee 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 was also a resident of London, England, 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 50406 in Elayne Fisher’s memory.