Obit: Fish, William (1901 - 1990)

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Surnames: FISH WILMOT CHAMBERLAIN VANDEMARK
 

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 06/13/1990
 

Fish, William (1901 - 1990)

William Fish, 88, Neillsville, died Tuesday, June 5, 1990, at 11:28 a.m. at Neillsville Memorial Hospital. A memorial service was held Sunday, June 10, 1990, at United Church of Christ, Neillsville. Rev. Linda Kuhn officiated. Cremation rites were accorded.

William Fish was born April 22, 1901, in Glenn Falls, N.Y., to Bert and May (Wilmot) Fish. He was education in New York and Massachusetts. In 1919, he graduated from Attleboro High School in Attleboro, Mass. He attended Northeastern University in Boston, where he studied structural engineering. He married Elinor Chamberlain, Jan. 8, 1927, in Yonkers, N.Y. She died Jan. 7, 1985. He spent most of his life in New York and New England. Early in his career he worked in the structural steel industry. Later, and for many years, he was employed by Architect Collaborative, a Boston based architectural firm. He retired in 1970 and moved to Wisconsin.

Survivors include one son, Dr. Richard Fish, Granton one sister, Mrs. Ruth VanDeMark, South Yarmouth, Mass. five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Preceding him in death were his parents, wife, one son, Stephen, one sister and one brother.