----Source: MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD (Marshfield, Wis.) 06/02/2003

Fischer, Melvin L. (10 Feb 1921 - 30 May 2003)

DORCHESTER - Melvin L. Fischer, 82, of Dorchester, Clark County, Wis., died Friday, May 30, 2003, at Saint Joseph's Hospital Palliative Care Unit. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Dorchester. Intermentwill be in Dorchester Memorial Cemetery.

He was born Feb. 10, 1921, in Medford to William A. and Anna (Damm) Fischer. He married Beaulah Jensen on June 26, 1948, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Medford. He attended Thielke Grade School and Medford Senior High School. He owned A&E Tavern in the town of Little Black until 1955, when he started his own machine shop, Dorchester Towers, which he ran for 40 years until he retired in 1995. He was a trustee on the Dorchester Village Board and a member of St. Peter Lutheran Church, Dorchester Fire Department, Hull's Lake Club and the Midnight Riders Snow-mobile Club.

Survivors include his wife, Beaulah Fischer of Dorchester; two sons, Daniel (Karen) Fischer of Avondale, Ariz., and David (Hillary) Fischer of Daytona Beach, Fla.; two sisters, Myrtle (Norbert) Faber of Woodruff and Joyce (Donald) Rinehart of Owen; a brother, Clifford (Linda) Fischer of Portage; four grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.