Walter A. Fischer, 96, Garrison, died on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, at his home. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 10:30 am at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Garrison. A rosary will be said on Friday at 7 pm at the church. Burial will be at the church cemetery.
Visitation will be held on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Thompson Funeral Home in Garrison.
Walter Albert Fischer was born on August 22, 1917, in Garrison, ND to Paul and Caroline (Kachelmaier) Fischer. Walter was the youngest child and the only family member to be born in North Dakota, his parents moving their five older children from south central Minnesota to St. Mary Township, McLean County, North Dakota in 1915. Walter grew up on this new family farm, eight miles west of Garrison, and attended school to obtain an Eighth Grade Diploma in 1931.
As his older brothers and sisters moved off the farm, married, and started families of their own, Walter continued to farm alongside his father.
On October 15, 1940, Walter wed Mary "Met" Kastner in St. Nicholas Catholic Church, Garrison. They had four sons. For several years, Walter continued to work with his father, Paul, who lost his wife, Caroline, in 1950, and then retired to Garrison after asking Walter to continue to maintain the farm as he had done during its first forty years. Paul died in 1955.
The Fischer family continued to raise beef cattle, a dairy herd, sheep, poultry, and a large garden. Season after season of tilling, planting, haying, harvesting, canning, and butchering maintained the farm as Walter had promised his father. "We couldn't go very many places, couldn't do very many things. We always had animals to feed. But that was good enough," he would explain. And while it may have taken a great deal of effort to fulfill his promise to his father, he would do so without borrowing so much as a dime during the sixty years he worked to keep his word.
Walter never retired. He could be found at least during part of every day in his signature brown boots, blue jeans, dark green shirt, and suspenders. And most definitely with a pair of work gloves in his pocket.
Walter is survived by his four sons, Wallace (Shirley) of Spokane, WA; Wade (Joanne) of Garrison; Michael (Marilyn) of Crooks, SD; and Jerald of Garrison.10 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and 3 great-great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary; his parents; two brothers; and three sisters.
After Mary's death in 2012, Walter's last request of his wife of 73 years was to "Leave the gate open, Ma. I'm not far behind." And while Walter more than deserves his rest -- somehow, somewhere -- there's a baler being fixed in Heaven.
Visitation will be held on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Thompson Funeral Home in Garrison.
Walter Albert Fischer was born on August 22, 1917, in Garrison, ND to Paul and Caroline (Kachelmaier) Fischer. Walter was the youngest child and the only family member to be born in North Dakota, his parents moving their five older children from south central Minnesota to St. Mary Township, McLean County, North Dakota in 1915. Walter grew up on this new family farm, eight miles west of Garrison, and attended school to obtain an Eighth Grade Diploma in 1931.
As his older brothers and sisters moved off the farm, married, and started families of their own, Walter continued to farm alongside his father.
On October 15, 1940, Walter wed Mary "Met" Kastner in St. Nicholas Catholic Church, Garrison. They had four sons. For several years, Walter continued to work with his father, Paul, who lost his wife, Caroline, in 1950, and then retired to Garrison after asking Walter to continue to maintain the farm as he had done during its first forty years. Paul died in 1955.
The Fischer family continued to raise beef cattle, a dairy herd, sheep, poultry, and a large garden. Season after season of tilling, planting, haying, harvesting, canning, and butchering maintained the farm as Walter had promised his father. "We couldn't go very many places, couldn't do very many things. We always had animals to feed. But that was good enough," he would explain. And while it may have taken a great deal of effort to fulfill his promise to his father, he would do so without borrowing so much as a dime during the sixty years he worked to keep his word.
Walter never retired. He could be found at least during part of every day in his signature brown boots, blue jeans, dark green shirt, and suspenders. And most definitely with a pair of work gloves in his pocket.
Walter is survived by his four sons, Wallace (Shirley) of Spokane, WA; Wade (Joanne) of Garrison; Michael (Marilyn) of Crooks, SD; and Jerald of Garrison.10 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and 3 great-great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary; his parents; two brothers; and three sisters.
After Mary's death in 2012, Walter's last request of his wife of 73 years was to "Leave the gate open, Ma. I'm not far behind." And while Walter more than deserves his rest -- somehow, somewhere -- there's a baler being fixed in Heaven.
Walter A. Fischer, 96, Garrison, died on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, at his home. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 10:30 am at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Garrison. A rosary will be said on Friday at 7 pm at the church. Burial will be at the church cemetery.
Visitation will be held on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Thompson Funeral Home in Garrison.
Walter Albert Fischer was born on August 22, 1917, in Garrison, ND to Paul and Caroline (Kachelmaier) Fischer. Walter was the youngest child and the only family member to be born in North Dakota, his parents moving their five older children from south central Minnesota to St. Mary Township, McLean County, North Dakota in 1915. Walter grew up on this new family farm, eight miles west of Garrison, and attended school to obtain an Eighth Grade Diploma in 1931.
As his older brothers and sisters moved off the farm, married, and started families of their own, Walter continued to farm alongside his father.
On October 15, 1940, Walter wed Mary "Met" Kastner in St. Nicholas Catholic Church, Garrison. They had four sons. For several years, Walter continued to work with his father, Paul, who lost his wife, Caroline, in 1950, and then retired to Garrison after asking Walter to continue to maintain the farm as he had done during its first forty years. Paul died in 1955.
The Fischer family continued to raise beef cattle, a dairy herd, sheep, poultry, and a large garden. Season after season of tilling, planting, haying, harvesting, canning, and butchering maintained the farm as Walter had promised his father. "We couldn't go very many places, couldn't do very many things. We always had animals to feed. But that was good enough," he would explain. And while it may have taken a great deal of effort to fulfill his promise to his father, he would do so without borrowing so much as a dime during the sixty years he worked to keep his word.
Walter never retired. He could be found at least during part of every day in his signature brown boots, blue jeans, dark green shirt, and suspenders. And most definitely with a pair of work gloves in his pocket.
Walter is survived by his four sons, Wallace (Shirley) of Spokane, WA; Wade (Joanne) of Garrison; Michael (Marilyn) of Crooks, SD; and Jerald of Garrison.10 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and 3 great-great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary; his parents; two brothers; and three sisters.
After Mary's death in 2012, Walter's last request of his wife of 73 years was to "Leave the gate open, Ma. I'm not far behind." And while Walter more than deserves his rest -- somehow, somewhere -- there's a baler being fixed in Heaven.
Visitation will be held on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Thompson Funeral Home in Garrison.
Walter Albert Fischer was born on August 22, 1917, in Garrison, ND to Paul and Caroline (Kachelmaier) Fischer. Walter was the youngest child and the only family member to be born in North Dakota, his parents moving their five older children from south central Minnesota to St. Mary Township, McLean County, North Dakota in 1915. Walter grew up on this new family farm, eight miles west of Garrison, and attended school to obtain an Eighth Grade Diploma in 1931.
As his older brothers and sisters moved off the farm, married, and started families of their own, Walter continued to farm alongside his father.
On October 15, 1940, Walter wed Mary "Met" Kastner in St. Nicholas Catholic Church, Garrison. They had four sons. For several years, Walter continued to work with his father, Paul, who lost his wife, Caroline, in 1950, and then retired to Garrison after asking Walter to continue to maintain the farm as he had done during its first forty years. Paul died in 1955.
The Fischer family continued to raise beef cattle, a dairy herd, sheep, poultry, and a large garden. Season after season of tilling, planting, haying, harvesting, canning, and butchering maintained the farm as Walter had promised his father. "We couldn't go very many places, couldn't do very many things. We always had animals to feed. But that was good enough," he would explain. And while it may have taken a great deal of effort to fulfill his promise to his father, he would do so without borrowing so much as a dime during the sixty years he worked to keep his word.
Walter never retired. He could be found at least during part of every day in his signature brown boots, blue jeans, dark green shirt, and suspenders. And most definitely with a pair of work gloves in his pocket.
Walter is survived by his four sons, Wallace (Shirley) of Spokane, WA; Wade (Joanne) of Garrison; Michael (Marilyn) of Crooks, SD; and Jerald of Garrison.10 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and 3 great-great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary; his parents; two brothers; and three sisters.
After Mary's death in 2012, Walter's last request of his wife of 73 years was to "Leave the gate open, Ma. I'm not far behind." And while Walter more than deserves his rest -- somehow, somewhere -- there's a baler being fixed in Heaven.
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