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Nancy Lora (Fisher) Rowe

Posted 2017-08-13 by Judy Wight Branson
The Daily Courier, Prescott, Arizona
Thursday, August 10, 2017, page 5a

Nancy “Lora” Rowe, was born Sept. 28, 1925 in Wheeling, West
Virginia to Ralph Norman Fisher and Mary Jane “Mollie” (Stine)
Fisher.

The three of them moved to Arizona in 1930 to treat her father’s
Tuberculosis.

They lived “on the desert” until 1933, when they moved to Prescott.

Ralph died in 1936. Lora married Mack Rowe in 1943.

Two years later, while Mack was serving in the war, Mollie died.
Lora worked for the Unemployment Office taking claims in Yavapai
County for 28 years. She was a life time member of the Moose Lodge,
Prescott Chapter. Mack and Lora were avid square dancers in their
younger years.

She is survived by her husband, Mack Rowe of Prescott, her daughter
and son-in-law, Kathy (Rowe) and Dave West, granddaughter, and her
husband, C.J. and Michele (West) Blackwell, granddaughter, Melissa
(West) O’Neil and great-grandchildren; Lily Blackwell, Sarah and
T.J. O’Neil, all of Chino Valley.

Funeral services will be held at Hampton Funeral Home, 240 South
Cortez, in Prescott, August 11, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. A reception will
be held afterwards at the Chino Valley United Methodist Church, 735
E. Road 1 South. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Moose Lodge,
Prescott Chapter and Hospice of the Pines will be most welcome.

Information provided by survivors.




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