Tom Fisher
This is an extraordinary memoir of Tom Fisher (January 12, 1939 - June 7, 2020).
Please take the time to read the memoirs, obituary and watch the video from the obituary.
[Click] Tom Fisher Obituary (with request for remembrances)
[Click] Tom Fisher Memorial Video (From the obituary - Many pictures of Tom and family)
In addition to Pat's memoir above, here are some other tributes to Tom:
Irene Cambias
I am so sorry Class of 65 for your loss......... You are all a group of amazing human beings .
Tom Fisher Rest In Peace...... you are in God's company now.
My prayers for Tom and his Family.
Big hugs from Chile Class of 65
Irene R Cambias
Marilyn Moniz
God bless you Pat for keeping the Maryknoll spirit alive via your emails.
Your email was a perfect introduction to the beautiful video that followed. I still have tears from the whole package deal.
Don remembers Tom as very personable and even more his one blue eye and one brown eye.
We will pray for Tom and his family that they as well as us ..continue to be inspired by Tom's legacy. He was truly a giant among men.
God bless you Pat for all that you do to bring to light the saints among us.
Stay safe...stay well...Be happy
Marilyn & Don
Fr. Pete Barry
The eulogy written by his children was priceless, and I'll read it a second time. I must admit that I did not know Tom very well, and I missed the 45th reunion in 2015. But I do recognize his face, as belonging to someone who had been a classmate of ours. He certainly did live a multifaceted life. What comes through is, through all his multiple experiences, he maintained his Catholic faith. It must have been firmly planted in Tom by his mother, the cloistered nun! I will offer Mass for him, and keep him in my prayers. May he rest in peace.
All the best,
Pete Barry
Joseph Deering
Tom Fisher was a fellow collegian and classmate in Maryknoll that everybody liked and respected. He was a thinker. He was purposeful. He made time for anyone who expressed an interest or asked a question or requested a hand, mental or menial.
We had a reasonably intellectual bent in our studies for four years. But my lasting impression is that the challenges were not big enough for Tom. He needed and wanted something with more heft, consequence, significance, scope, action, demands, boldness. I think Tom met all those challenges, and well beyond. He lived his life fully to where few I've known could be his peer