Frances Turner Fisher

1845–1929 (age 84)

Biography

Frances Turner Fisher was beloved for her attentive care of family and for the steady charity she offered through the Saint James the Less parish, where she shaped the women's guild and welcomed newcomers into the church community.

Her keen sense of hospitality and quiet generosity created gatherings that sustained neighbors through hardship, and her memory lives on in the same churchyard where she was laid to rest.

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