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JCBR shows her name as Shirley.
1930 Dist 48, Wichita, Sedgwick, KS # 816-195
Hawkins, Osa F wife 45 m age 27 WVWVWV teacher public school
Mary Louise dau 6 Iowa Tenn WV
Fisher, Sherla R sil 40 s WVWVWV teacher public school
In memory of
Sherla Lee Fisher
July 18, 1889
September 22, 1978
Services
Old Missioin Mortuary Chapel
Wednesday, September 27, 1978
Ten-thirty o'clock
Officiating
The Rev. Kenneth Short
Methodist Minister
Music
Myrth Culp, Organist
"Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring"
"The Lord's Prayer"
Ex-East High drama instructor
by Mike Limon
Wichita Beacon staff
Former students of Sherla Lee Fisher say she will be remembered as a professional who demanded the best of those she taught during her 27 years in Wichita public schools.
Fisher, former speech and drama director of East High School, died Friday at the Lakewood Village Nursing Center. She was 89.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Quiring-Old Mission Mortuary, 925 N Hillside.
Fisher was well known for her productions of classic period costume dramas such as "Pride and Prejudice" and "Imaginary Invalid", as well as Broadway hits like "Life With Father" and "The Man Who Came to DInner."
"Life With Father" was the best high school play I ever saw." said Ester Benedict, an East High math instructor who taught with Fisher in the 1940s.
Ted Morris, producer/director of the Crown Uptown Theater was a student of Fisher's just before she retired in 1856. He remembers her as a "very thorough" instructor.
"I'm even more impressed with her now that I've been working in theater for a number of years," Morris said.
"She was a professional i n every sense of the word. She demanded and got the best out of each and every one of her students."
One of her former students, Dorothey Stinnett, is a Broadway actress and television performer.
Fisher was born July 18, 1889, in Jackson County, West Virginia.
Her family moved to Kansas in 1904 and she attended high school in Kiowas and LaCrosse. She began her teaching career in LaCrosse in 1913 and moved to Wichita in the late 1920s.
She taught at North High in 1929 and transferred to East three years later.
In 1970, she was honored at a receptioin by many of her former students and colleagues.
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West Virginia Pioneers
1889 - 1978 (89 years)
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