Warren Philip Fisher Jr

Male6 September 1955–5 October 2013

Brief Life History of Warren Philip

When Warren Philip Fisher Jr was born on 6 September 1955, in Norfolk, Virginia, United States, his father, Warren Philip Fisher, was 24 and his mother, Jeanne Vandolyn Taylor, was 23. He died on 5 October 2013, at the age of 58, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Warren Philip Fisher
1931–2017
Jeanne Vandolyn Taylor
1932–
Vandolyn Gail Fisher
1952–1969
Gary Braxton Fisher
1954–1954
Warren Philip Fisher Jr
1955–2013

Sources (5)

  • Warren Philip Fisher, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
  • Warren P Fisher, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Warren P Or Phil Fisher, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

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Siblings (3)

World Events (8)

1956 · The Federal Aid Highway Act

Age 1

With the construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System, the Federal Aid Highway Act made way for the largest public works project in American history at that time. One of the purposes was to provide military access to places in case of an attack.

1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space

Age 3

Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.

1971 · The Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Age 16

The Twenty-sixth Amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens who are eighteen years old or older.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages, including German Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser ), Dutch Visser , Hungarian Halász (see Halasz ), Italian Pescatore , Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic ), and Croatian Ribić or Ribar .

English: in a few cases, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from Middle English fis(sc)hwere, fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer, fiscgear), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Fisher in North Mundham, Sussex.

Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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