Mr. William "Bill" Edward Fisher

William (Bill) was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July 23, 1930. At the age of 16, Bill’s father passed away and Bill, being the eldest son became the head of the family at a very young age. In spite of a challenging childhood, Bill was very active and excelled in sports and academics – eventually earning his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He served in the Canadian Naval reserves for 2 years while attending University. Bill accepted an Engineering position with Shell Canada which moved him out west to Calgary. There he met his loving wife Lillian (nee Kaminski) with whom his shared 68 wonderful years of marriage. Bill accepted an assignment with Shell in New York City where he and Lillian lived for 2 years. Then he accepted another position in Houston Texas where they lived for 2 more years. Following that they moved back to Calgary and have resided there ever since. Bill worked his way up the ranks in Shell to become Senior Manager of Natural Gas Marketing and worked at Shell for 35 years.

Bill was very involved in the activities of his kids and still found time to volunteer for an extensive array of charities and community organizations including: Hope & Highwood Lutheran Church, President of Calgary Minor Sports, Co-founder of Calgary Soccer Center, Calgary Horticultural Society, Calgary hiking club, Triwood Community Center and more. Bill also coached and refereed soccer and was involved with golf, skiing, basketball, cubs, scouts, and more. Bill loved to golf (Pinebrook Golf Club), read, garden, hike, walk Ptarmy and Daisy, watch NFL football and spend winters down in Palm Springs with Lill and wonderful relatives and friends – always on the menu was golfing, lawn bowling, playing tennis, and entertaining. Bill was very proud of his family, working at Shell and being a Professional Engineer. We are all very proud of our father for the many things he has accomplished in his life and the wonderful caring person he was. He will be lovingly remembered always and forever as an extremely generous person who lived life to the fullest and always looked out for others.

Bill is lovingly remembered by his wife Lillian, his children Robin (Steve), Steve (Loriss), Susan (deceased) and Charlene (Mary). He is also lovingly remembered by grandchildren Michael (Morgan), Todd, Mark (Ana), Matthew, Kurt (Mikaela), and Josh (Peyton) and Goddaughter Donna. Bill is survived by his younger brother Jim, and is predeceased by his sister Irene (Madill), his father Osmond (Bud) and his mother Maisie (nee Raven).

We would like to extend our deepest thanks to all the staff at Rocky Ridge Retirement Community who have provided such special care for both Dad and Mom. Special thanks to Kim for the wonderful “Date Night” event she arranged for Dad and Mom.

Also, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Stosky, Dr. Yu, Dr. Daly, Dr. Wong and the staff at the Tom Baker Cancer Center who provided dad with such skilled and compassionate care.

A Celebration of Life will be held at FOSTER’S GARDEN CHAPEL, 3220 – 4 Street N.W., Calgary (across from Queen’s Park Cemetery). The date and time are to be determined. The information will be shared when available.