Clifford Wayne Fisher

(January 17, 1925 ~ May 10, 1945)

Wayne, son of Willis Deal Fisher and Dessie Mae Lewis, buried in Northview Cemetery, Winters, Runnels County, Texas.

Bradshaw Soldier Reburial Service at Winters Wednesday

Winters, April 2. (RNS) - The body of Sgt. Wayne Fisher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Fisher of near Winters, will arrive here Wednesday for reburial.

Funeral services will be held at 3:00 o'clock on wednesday afternoon at the First Baptist Church.  The Rev. L.L. Trott, pastor, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. W.T. Hamor of Abilene.  The local Legion Post will be in charge of military rites and burial will be in Northview Cemetery under direction of Spill Funer Home.  The body will lie in state at the funeral home until service time

Pallbearers are to be Earl Howard, Ralph Lloyd, Floyd Grant, Raymon Lloyd, Tad Hatler, Frank Johnson, R.P. Penny and Eugene Baker.

Sgt. Fisher was born in Winters, Jan. 17, 1925.  He attended here and in Bradshaw, where he was graduated in 1943.  He was a star athlete in Bradshaw High School and was a class officer in his senior year.  After graduation he worked for a few months in Winters as a bookkeeper before entering service, Jan. 12, 1944.  There followed a period of training in California before he was sent overseas in the summer of 1944.

Sgt. Fisher was listed as the first service man from Bradshaw to be reported killed.  His parents lived near there at the time he entered the service.

Survivors are his parents and a sister, Mrs. Tillman Jennings, Jr., all of Winters, and a number of other relatives.