embalmer and funeral director with McFarland Funeral Chapel, Tryon, North Carolina, died August 14, 2012, at age 56. Fisher graduated from Spartanburg Methodist College and later Gupton Jones College of Mortuary Science, where he was salutatorian and received the Bill Pierce Award for funeral director most likely to succeed. Fisher had been working with McFarland Funeral Chapel since 1987. He is survived by mother Martha; father Jessie; companion Sonja and her daughters, Tia and Torri; and stepmother Imogene.