Martha Craig Fisher

1938 - 2014

Denver, CO

Martha Craig Fisher, age 76, passed away Sunday June 29, 2014 in Denver, Colorado. A Memorial Service will be held on Monday, July 7, 2014 at St. James' Episcopal Church on Oak Ridge Drive in Jackson, Mississippi at 11am. A visitation will be held at St. James' prior to the service at 10am. Interment will follow at the Natchez Trace Memorial Park Cemetery in Madison.

She was born Mary Martha Craig on June 24, 1938 in Houston, Texas. She attended Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans, LA and received her undergraduate degree from Belhaven College in Jackson in 1981, shortly following the birth of her seventh child. She received her Master of Education degree in Early Childhood Education from Oklahoma City University, specializing in the Montessori teaching method. She was a lifelong teacher in many contexts, and played a vital role the revitalization of religious education within the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi. She helped to initiate the Montessori-inspired Catechesis of the Good Shepard program in the State and was a central part of the program at St. James' Episcopal Church for many years.

She married Luther Calvin Fisher, III MD on December 30, 1957 and together they had seven children. They lived and raised their children in a number of places including Jackson, Mississippi, Houston, Texas, Pensacola, Florida and also Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In recent years they have lived in Taos, NM.

Martha is survived by her husband Luther (Red) Fisher, her children Luther (Luke) Fisher, Marion Hearon, Claire Kirkpatrick, Stephen Fisher, Lorenzo (Lenzy) Fisher, Peter Fisher and Joshua Fisher, her sister Marion Johannsson, and twelve grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Martha Fisher Fund for Catechist Education with checks payable to St. James' Episcopal Church, 3921 Oak Ridge Drive Jackson, MS 39216.