![]() ![]() passed away peacefully at home, with family by his side, on January 15th, 2023. Online condolences may be expressed by visiting "Chuck" James Schmitz, Jr. Snyder Funeral Homes, Denzer Chapel is honored to serve Dick's family. There'll be pennies from heaven for you and meĪ gathering for friends and family will be held Friday, Jat Snyder Funeral Homes, DENZER Chapel (347 West Center St., Marion) from 4-7pm. So, when you hear it thunder, don't run under a tree If you want the things you love, you must have showers Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers You'll find your fortune's falling all over the townīe sure that your umbrella is upside down Fisher, Herbert Fisher, Ada Marren McGuire.Įvery time it rains, it rains pennies from heavenĭon't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven? Fisher, and Kelly Windsor Fisher and grandchildren, Thomas Charles Fisher, Theodore F. Dick will be missed by his children, Stephen Weiss Fisher, Jane Elizabeth Fisher, Richard M. Loving spouse, exceptional father, doting grandfather, great friend and dinner companion, Dick will be horribly missed but his loved ones will continue to draw comfort from his memory as someone who emphasized courage, strength and humor even in the face of life's greatest challenges. One of his favorite songs was "Pennies from Heaven" by Johnny Burke, especially performed by Dick's favorite singer Tony Bennett. ![]() Dick was an exceptional man who had a keen intellect, sharp sense of humor and a love for both sports and the arts (visual, performing, music). He retired from the agency and did consulting work for many private clients for years including pro-bono work for the James Cancer Center and work for Kodak. In Marion, he met his second wife, Ada Lee (Lutz) Fisher and they moved from Marion to Dublin in 1991. Marzetti, Dow Corning, Bank One and the city of Columbus. They had a string of well-known campaigns for clients that included Owens-Illinois, Cedar Point, Drumstick, T. With his creative partner, Blaine Gutermuth, they created a famous print ad that ran for 10 years in the Wall Street Journal in the same position on the same page with the same headline "What's an agency like Howard Swink Advertising doing in Marion Ohio?" Each week in a few lines of copy the small space ad answered the question with a humorous fact about the town and the agency - which grew big, merged and moved - with Dick as CEO. There he thrived as an adman who was both a visual artist and an exceptional writer. After college, he was offered a job at Howard Swink Advertising, which was a small Ohio Agency. It instilled in him a passion for world travel and a fiery hatred of camping and sleeping in tents. After college he joined the Army and was a Lieutenant in Korea at the end of the conflict. There he was a member of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1954 with a Bachelor's Degree in Advertising Design. His father was the bakery manager of the A&P Grocery Stores so Dick moved at a very young age to Atlanta, Georgia and then Jacksonville, Florida, when his father was transferred to A&P's New York City office, Dick moved to Long Island where he graduated from Huntington High School in 1950. They instilled in him a work ethic, quick sense of humor, and the belief that all people were his equals to be treated with respect and kindness. Dick was born in Iowa to a father from the Midwestern farm country and a mother from Georgia. He was a founding member of the Central Ohio Wine Society. Dick was an avid golfer at the Marion Country Club and Muirfield Village Golf Club, leading the marketing efforts for the PGA Memorial Tournament in its early years. Dick Fisher will be remembered as the President and CEO of Marion's Howard Swink Advertising, later Fahlgren Swink and Fahlgren Martin. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa to the late Herbert Paul Fisher and Mary Elizabeth Richardson Fisher. Charles Richard Fisher, of Dublin, Ohio died Jat Grant Medical Center.
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