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Fisher, Edwin O.
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1920-2003
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Born in West Virginia, Edwin Fisher (1920-2003), an American missionary, graduated from Morris Harvey College in 1943, and Bonebrake Theological Seminary in 1946. He was admitted to the West Virginia Conference of the United Brethren Church in 1939, and ordained to the itinerant ministry in 1946. He married Mary Eunice Harpold in 1943. Together they served as missionaries to the Philippines from 1946 to 1952. After returning to the United States, Fisher was assistant secretary in the Division of World Missions for the Evangelical United Brethren Church, then elected area secretary in 1968. He served as executive secretary in the World Division, China Program from 1970 until his retirement in 1985.