Brief Life History of Grant A
When Grant A Fisher was born on 8 June 1919, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Asael Henry Fisher, was 30 and his mother, Flora Davis, was 27. He married Elayne Taylor on 3 April 1945, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Pleasant View Election Precinct, Utah, Utah, United States for about 5 years. He died on 2 April 2012, in Orem, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Grant A Fisher, "United States 1950 Census"
- Grant A Fisher, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"
- Grant A. Fisher, "BillionGraves Index"
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1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1921 · One of The Oldest Coasters in the World
Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 5.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
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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Grant A. Fisher (8 June 1919 – 2 April 2012)
VETERAN US NAVY WORLD WAR II Grant A. Fisher, our dear "Papa Ace," passed away on Mon. Apr. 2, 2012 in Orem, Utah. A lover of old friends, precious memories, nature's beauty, the common touch, an …
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