Annie Lou Fisher was 83 years old when she went to be with her Lord and Savior. She passed on June 16th, 2024 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Ks. She resided in the Ponca City area better known as Kildare for much of her life. She lived there when she was younger and then she moved back with her family in the 80’s.

Annie was born in Claremore, Ok on September 8th, 1940 to Elmer and Rose Buzzard. She was the 6th of 11 children. She was a full-blooded Cherokee citizen and fluently spoke her native language throughout her life.

Annie attended Newkirk High School but dropped out before graduating but later got her GED. She married Gerald Fisher on March 8th, 1963 but the marriage ended after 18 years. While together they had 3 children, Donna, Sara and Justin.

Annie worked several jobs throughout her life but seemed to gravitate toward food services. She worked at Golden Corral and in the kitchens of nursing homes and hospitals. Later she became a CNA for Ponca Nursing Home and Shawn Manor. After she retired, she decided to become a home health caregiver in the Ponca City area.

Annie and her family moved several times over the years, first moving from Wichita to Augusta Ks, then to Bentonville, AR, then Blackwell before settling in Kildare. It was in Bentonville that she took an oil painting class and really excelled at drawing and painting and even entered her paintings in the Benton County Fair. She almost always received a ribbon, and several of them were blue ribbons.

Annie is a member of the Kildare Baptist Church, and she enjoyed crocheting, doing jigsaw puzzles, watching Thunder basketball and watching the Sooners play football. She also enjoyed the weekly Sunday dinners at her house with her brothers, sisters, kids and grandkids but it was one Sunday on May 6th, 2018 that she was dealt a devastating blow. She found out that her only son, Justin, had died suddenly. I’m not sure she ever got over that.

Annies’s health started deteriorating a few years ago when she started dialysis. Then last year she was diagnosed with early onset Dementia. Upon her death she wanted to have her body donated to science to help research diabetes and dementia, so she was sent to KU Medical school. She will be cremated when she leaves KU.

Annie is preceded in death by her parents Elmer and Rose Buzzard, her son Justin Wayne Fisher, her brothers Johnson, Jeff and Andrew Buzzard and sisters Louella Greenwood and Rosie Johnson.

She is survived by her daughters Donna Fisher and Sara Petterson, brothers Robert Buzzard and Jackson Buzzard, sisters Betty Buzzard, Pauline Buzzard and Loretta Lote. Grandchildren Jordon and McKenzie Hutchison, Sommer and Raven Wano and numerous nieces and nephews.

There will be no service at this time, but a celebration of life will be held later this year. In lieu of flowers you may make a donation to the American Diabetes Association in her name. Paid Obituary