John Jacob Fisher ’45

Dr. John J. Fisher died May 20, 1995, in Jacksonville, Fla., after a courageous battle with cancer. Jack entered Princeton from Shadyside Academy in Pittsburgh, but his Princeton career was interrupted for Navy air service.

Jack earned his medical degree in 1948. He practiced obstetrics-gynecology in Jacksonville, Fla., until 1986, when he sold his practice and, with fourth wife Leah Murphy, formed Florida Medical Missions. They outfitted a 42-ft. Hatteras cruiser, as a small version of the S.S. Hope, and became medical missionaries. Jack's career included service on the S.S. Hope on voyages to Ecuador and Peru in 1962 and 1964. In 1965 he founded a mission hospital project in Honduras, which is still in operation.

Jack was married for 50 years to four wives and produced 10 children. He married Ellen Ludwig in Nov. 1942, and they had eight children. In 1967 he married Marjorie Evans and later remarried her. In his book, Victorious Journey, published in 1983, Jack recounted his frequently successful struggle against his cancer and his adventures of flying around the world in a Cessna 310, much of the way solo.

To his extended family, the class extends its sympathy but also its congratulations on their association with so outstanding an individual.

The Class of 1945