Emory Fleisher Sr.

Emory Dean Fleisher Sr., 71 of Franklin, died Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg, Va.

He was born July 6, 1931, in Franklin and was a son of Charles William and Daisy Nell Harper Fleisher.

He had worked in the maintenance department at Hanover Shoe Company for 16 years. He was a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Moyers, and attended Christ Central Church at Upper Tract.

He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and was a member of the VFW Post 9666 in Sugar Grove.

On July 30, 1955, he married the former Edith Waybright, who survives.

Also surviving are one daughter, Elizabeth Alt of Petersburg; two sons, Emory D. Fleisher Jr. of Franklin and Michael d. Waybright of Fredericksburg, Va.; two brothers, John R. Fleisher of Harrisonburg, Va. and Eston S. Fleisher of Franklin; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

The Rev. Edgar Null will conduct a funeral service 2 p.m. Saturday at Obaugh Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Blue Grass Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. this evening at the funeral home.