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- Obituary Virginia Sitton Fisk
In loving memory of our Mother, Virginia Sitton Fisk, who passed away January 9, 2013. Mother was born in Pecos, Texas on September 2, 1923. She graduated from Pyote High School where she lettered in tennis. Upon graduation she moved to El Paso to live with her sister Ida Lucas, to work and to attend Texas College of Mines. Here she met and married our father Lt. Bradley Evans Fisk, a native of El Paso.
After WW II they moved to Dallas where she worked to put Bradley through Southern Methodist University Law School. Upon graduation they moved back to EL Paso where he became a partner with the law firm of Andress, Lipscomb, Peticolas and Fisk.
Mother began the years of raising their four children, volunteering, making close friends and gardening. She was involved with various PTA's and was president of the Loretto Garden Club. She served as President of the El Paso Bar Auxiliary, President of Texas Western Woman's Auxiliary, President of the EL Paso Museum of Art Guild, and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the El Paso Museum of Art. Her most important role was as a founder of the El Paso Alzheimer's Assoc. She became President of the Board of Directors, twice, and served on the Board for ten years. She also worked for a number of years as a counselor to families with Alzheimer's patients. She received the Golden Rule Award for Volunteerism for 1995 from the J C Penny National Company. She served on the Silver Haired Legislature of Texas representing El Paso. She was also one of 4 persons to be named into the Mayor's council of Older Americans Hall of Fame.
Western Hills Methodist Church saw her the co head of visitation. Next to her family, her greatest love was the game of golf. She spent many years mastering the game, making three hole in one's, serving as President of the Women's Eighteen Hole Golf Association at El Paso Country Club and receiving the Bill Eschenbrenner Award. She played in tournaments in El Paso and the southwest receiving awards and making many new friends.
She and her sister Hazel Strickland started bridge lessons at EPCC and helped found the 'Wednesday Group. Her family will always remember her for her style, grace, intellect, calmness, love of family, love of reading, love of political discussions with her sisters, her belief in all people, her knowledge and love of art, her artistic and design flair and her passion for golf. Virginia studied under many well known El Paso artists and produced many beautiful paintings.
She is preceded in death by her husband Bradley E. Fisk, her parents Emily Adelia Banks Sitton and Andrew Jackson Sitton, her sisters Hazel Strickland, Fay Kleban, Ida Lucas, Frances Turner, Clara Hitt, her brother A. J. Sitton Jr.
She is survived by her children: Carolyn & Richard Overley, Bradley and Jennifer Fisk, Fay Fisk, and Sally Denney (Mark Newton).
Her grandchildren Rich & Jill Overley, Ryan & Jamie Overley, Mae Moreno, Lara Denney, Justin Denney. Brother and sister-law, Tom & Bernice Fisk, Marion Hendrickson and nephew John Hendrickson. She also has many wonderful nieces and nephews who loved her dearly. To them she always will be AUNT GINNY.
Special thanks to VNA Hospice, Bernardo and Rose Cisneros Adam McCare Foster Home, Good Samaritan Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing, Dr. Payne, Carmen Martinez and the ladies at Western Hills Methodist Church: Barbara Kussero, Sue Minor, Margret Horn, Ginny Moe, Roberta Harrison, Marilyn Stanley & Rev. Amy Mercer Funeral Service will be held on Monday, January 14, 2013 at 11:30 AM at Martin Funeral Home West. Interment will follow at Memory Gardens of the Valley Cemetery, 4900 McNutt Rd. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Alzheimer's Association 4687 N. Mesa, El Paso, TX 79912. Services entrusted to Martin Funeral Home West, 128 N. Resler Dr., El Paso, TX
Ref: El Paso Times, Tex.
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1924 - 2013 (88 years)