Long Time Member Dies

Posted by Wayne Harper 
on Aug 13, 2011
 
 Maurice Parkin (Jake) Fisher
 
April 21, 1924-August 13, 2011
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Jake died quietly in the Ottawa General Hospital of complications
following pneumonia, on August 13th, 2011, aged 87, after a difficult
year in Ottawa. He was pre-deceased by his beloved wife of 55
years, Margery and their son, Alan. Jake was a loving father to Judith
(Keith Purchase) of West Vancouver, Michael (Karen Phinney) of
Niagara and Halifax, Susan (David McKellar) of Ottawa and Sackville
and Ian (Judith Cane) of Ottawa; and grandfather to his long-awaited
and much-loved grandsons Sam Purchase, Colin Robertson and Sam
Fisher. Jake is also survived by his elder sister Mary McOuat of
Dartmouth and Sackville, his sisters-in-law Barbara Fisher of Halifax
and Heather Seybold of Picton, his brother-in-law Davidson Campbell
of Baltimore, and his cousins Ned and George Fisher and Nora
Tapley, as well as a large extended family. His brother Peter died in
2005.
Jake grew up in Sackville, the son of Mary Kathleen (Fawcett) Fisher
and Charles Maurice Parkin Fisher. Apart from boarding school at
Bishops College School in Lennoxville and service during WW 2, he
spent his life in Sackville and was content with the life it provided.
There were happy memories of riding with his sister, pranks with his
exuberant Fawcett cousins and sailing in Shediac. Later, he brought
his bride Margery, a city girl from Montreal, to settle first on Park
Street and later in the red house on the marsh. There they raised
their five children and an assortment of golden retrievers, cats,
horses, and cows. Jake also dabbled with farming, growing a variety
of grains and was keenly interested in the potential of generating
power from the Bay of Fundy tides.
Jake had a lengthy career with the Enterprise Foundry Company of
Sackville and the Workmanʼs Compensation Board in Saint John. He
was an avid Rotarian for 60 years, a Paul Harris Fellow several times,
and had a keen interest in the history of the Maritimes. He attended
McGill University but left when he and two school friends signed up
together to join the war effort. Later he attended Mt. A and Khaki
University, London, following service in WW 2.
Visitation will be held at Campbellʼs Funeral Home on Friday, August
19th, 2011 from 7-9pm. The funeral service will be held at St. Paulʼs
Anglican Church, Sackville, NB at 2pm on Saturday, August 20th,
2011.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Sackville Rotary Club or The
Rotary Foundation (Canada) would be greatly appreciated by the
family. c/o Campbellʼs Funeral Home, 89 Bridge Street, Sackville,
N.B. E4L 3P1.
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