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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
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WHEREAS, Family and friends are mourning the loss of Mary |
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Ammons Fisher of Paris, Texas, who died on March 9, 2009, at the age |
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of 89; and |
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WHEREAS, Mary Ammons was born in Paris on November 16, 1919, |
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to Jess and Augusta "Gussie" Burger Ammons; after graduating from |
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Paris High School, she attended Paris Junior College; she worked at |
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Camp Maxey during World War II and went on to work at the Veterans |
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Administration; in 1948, she was joined in matrimony to George |
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Oscar Fisher, Jr., and they enjoyed a long life together until his |
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death in 2006; and |
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WHEREAS, Mrs. Fisher worked for the Texas Employment |
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Commission and later moved on to the local office of the Social |
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Security Administration, where she retired after 15 years of |
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service in 1975; she was an active member of Calvary United |
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Methodist Church; and |
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WHEREAS, Although Mary Fisher will be deeply missed, she will |
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be fondly remembered by those whose lives were touched by her |
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affection and friendship; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the 81st Legislature of the State of Texas |
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hereby pay tribute to the life of Mary Ammons Fisher and extend |
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sincere condolences to the members of her family: to her sons, Brady |
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Alan Fisher and George Kim Fisher and his wife, Rhonda; to her |
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grandson, Christopher Fisher; to her brother-in-law, T. F. Pretre; |
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and to her other relatives and friends; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of |
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Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Mary Ammons |
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Fisher. |