OBITUARY: Ruby Taylor Fisher

A retired Smith County educator, Mrs. Ruby Taylor Fisher, and an example of a dedicated Christian lady who loved God’s word, was rewarded for her earthly living at 7:13 a.m. at the Highpoint Health – Riverview Medical Center in Carthage. She had been admitted March 14th after suffering a fall at her Fisher Avenue home. Mrs. Fisher died on her 93rd birthday on March 19, 2025.

Her longtime minister, Edward L. Anderson and her present minister, Sam Willcut, will provide opening remarks. Dr. Jon Partlow, her son-in-law, will deliver the eulogy at 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon, March 22nd funeral services at the Carthage Church of Christ. Interment will follow beside her husband Robert, in the Garden of Gethsemane at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.

The Fisher family will receive friends at Sanderson in Carthage on Friday from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. and again on Saturday at the Carthage Church of Christ from 11 a.m. until the 1 p.m. funeral services.

Mrs. Fisher was born Ruby Isabell Taylor in the Silver Point Community of Putnam County and was one of three children of the late Silver Point Community merchant, Clarence Ford (C. F.) Taylor who died January 4, 1983 and Winnie Lucile Askew Taylor who died August 31, 1987 at the age of 81. Her two brothers, James William “Bill” Taylor died at the age of 53 on November 13, 1979 and Korean Army Sergeant Veteran, Jeptha Newton “Jep” Taylor, who died at the age of 80 on November 17, 2009. Also preceding Mrs. Fisher in death was her daughter-in-law, Beth Toney Fisher, who died April 5, 2024 at the age of 62.

At the Carthage Church of Christ, she was united in marriage on December 21, 1959 to Carthage native, Robert Ernest Fisher, whose family owned and operated the Thomas Fisher Lumber Company in South Carthage, which was housed in a building now known as the former Rackley Roofing Co. Mr. Fisher preceded her in death on September 13, 1971 at the age of 48 following just over eleven years of marriage.

Mrs. Fisher was a 1950 graduate of the Baxter Seminary at Baxter. She attended Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in Cookeville (now Tennessee Technological University) for two years and graduated with a major in Home Economics and a minor in chemistry from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1954.

As a child Mrs. Fisher was a member of the Silver Point Church of Christ in the Silver Point Community and after becoming a home economics teacher at Smith County High School and before her marriage, she moved her membership to the Carthage Church of Christ. Before her retirement in 1997 from the Smith County School System she also taught reading in some of the elementary schools including Gordonsville, Defeated Creek and Pleasant Shade.

As a dedicated member of the Carthage Church, she was instrumental in beginning the Ladies Adult Bible Class, which she taught for many years. She attended services two weeks before her fall.

Surviving are her three children, Robert Ernest (Bob) Fisher Jr. of the Tanglewood Community, Lucile (Cile) Fisher Partlow and husband Jon of Lucasville, Ohio; Jimmy Fisher and wife Wanda of the Pleasant Shade Community; nine grandchildren, Rachel Fisher Voltaggio and husband Tony, Robert Fisher, Rosie Fisher Gray and husband Shawn, Taylor Brothers and husband Derek, Jonathan Partlow Jr., Matthew Partlow and wife Joanna, Kendra Shelton, Amelia Tyler and husband Jacob, James Thomas Fisher and fiancée Taylor; and nine great-grandchildren.

The Fisher family has requested memorials to either the Carthage Church of Christ or Taylor Christian Camp.

Pallbearers: Jonathan and Matthew Partlow, James and Robert Fisher, Carson and Jackson Grey, Jacob Tyler, Teddy Spivey.

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