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Note: Reg Fisher was born in Cove, Union County, Oregon On November, 26 1900. His parents were Christopher Fisher and Frances McMullen Fisher. His family lived in Ashland, Oregon when he was a young child.
On May 15, 1933 he married Delores Rogers, daughter of Calvin Rogers and Myrtle Hoyt.
They lived in San Francisco in the green arrow auto court during WW 2, where Reg worked in the ship yards, building ships for the Bethlehem Steel Co.
They had three daughters, Frances, Joyce, and Zina. Their children attended Placer High School in auburn, California.
After the war they settled in Auburn, California, where his parents were living at the time. Reg worked as an upholster and traveled to mountain towns to fix mattresses and reupholster furniture. In 1947 they were living on Lincoln Way in Mrs. Mccally boarding house. They had a small house in the back. His parents had a room in the house. While they were living there, his father, Christopher died of gangrene. He developed it from cutting his toenail with a pocket knife. He disliked doctors and wouldn't see one until it was too late. Shortly thereafter they moved, along with Reg's mother, to Edgewood acres, on the Grass Valley Highway. They bought two lots and built a house. Later they built a shop on the Fount lot to use as an upholsters shop. Reg, in partners with his brother, Cliff had a shop in Ione, California.
Delores Rogers Fisher died in 1955 of female cancer. Reg sold the house a few years later and moved to a mobile home, along with Cliff. Reg died in 1965 at the age of 64 of lung cancer.
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