Marjorie Fisher

Marjorie Fisher, 80, passed away at the

Libby Care Center March 14, 2011. She was born to Norvald Sr. and

Eunice (Edmonds) Newman on Dec. 3, 1930 in Mobridge, S.D. She grew

up and attended schools in North and South Dakota.

She married Marion Fisher on Oct. 23,

1948 in Kalispell. They lived at Four Corners in Kalispell while

logging around the area until 1956. They moved to Troy and lived at

Troy Lumber Company before moving to the top of the Yaak Hill and

down in over the hill where Marion set up a sawmill which he ran

for many years. They moved the mill to Weippe, Idaho, in 1963. They

lived there until 1975 when they moved to Julietta, Idaho, where

they lived until they moved back to Troy in 1993. She loved playing

bingo and computer games. She will be greatly missed by all who

knew her.

She was preceded in death by four

sisters Martha Rogge, Marie Enger, Marlene Rouse and Margaret

Whitten and three brothers Norvald Newman, Jr., Norman Newman and

Oscar Newman.

She is survived by one son David

Fisher, Troy; two brothers Robert Newman, Post Falls, Idaho, and

Donald Newman, Mt. Vernon, Mo.; three grandchildren Angela

Anderson, Holly Deibert and Jimmy Fisher; and great-grandchildren

Kenyon, Kaden, Kylantra, Mason, Jessica Anderson, Chase, Brenden,

Austen, Jake Delbert, Cameron and Gavin Fisher.

Services will be Friday, March 18, 2011

at 10 a.m. at the Kootenai Chapel in Troy with Pastor Terry Meroney

officiating. Memorials can be made to First Bank of Montana in Troy

in Marjorie’s name. Arrangements are by Schnackenberg & Nelson

Funeral Home in Libby.