Dr. Edward Harold Fisher

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Dr. Edward Harold Fisher - Madison Parish, Louisiana
Northside Sun Jackson, MS December 12, 2025

Dr. Edward Harold Fisher, devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather, passed away December 10, 2025. Visitation was Friday, December 12, 2025, in the chapel of First Baptist Church of Jackson. A graveside service was held Saturday, December 13, 2025, at St. Peter’s Cemetery in Oxford.

He invested his personal life in his family and his professional life in efforts to improve educational opportunities for all, having served as a classroom teacher, State Supervisor of Elementary Education, taught graduate courses for Ole Miss and Mississippi College, and as president of Blue Mountain College for 36 years, and upon his retirement was designated President Emeritus of Blue Mountain College.

He was a founding commissioner of the Commission on Elementary Schools of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and served as chair of the commission and a member of the Board of Trustees and president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He continued his service to SACS as director for Mississippi. He served on the Mississippi Commission on School Accreditation and was a member of the Mississippi Commission on College Accreditation having served as chair of the commission. He was a member and executive director of the Mississippi Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. He served on the board of directors and as a member of the executive committee of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and was a founding director of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. He was active in school board service, having served as a member of the school boards in Tippah County and the South Tippah Consolidated School District for 24 years, as a member of the board of directors and president of the Mississippi School Boards Association and as a member of the board of directors and president of the National School Boards Association. He also served on the board of directors of the Mississippi Humanities Council. He was a Rotarian and a Paul Harris Fellow.

While a student at Ole Miss he met Martha Huggins. They were married in 1955 after he returned from the army. During their happy life together, they had three children.

Dr. Fisher was a committed Christian who was a faithful member of the First Baptist Church of Jackson where he served as a deacon and Sunday School teacher in the Beacon Sunday School Class, and he was a former member of the Lowrey Memorial Baptist Church in Blue Mountain where he served as a deacon for 35 years.

He served in the U.S. Army for two years during which time he was a cryptographer at the Far East Command Headquarters at Camp Zama, Japan for 18 months.

He leaves his wife, Martha Huggins Fisher, three children, Barbara Fisher Mize (David) of Rocky Mount, N.C., Hal Fisher (Beth) of Madison and Laura Fisher James (Gerald) of Dallas, and seven grandchildren, David Mize Jr. of Wake Forest, N.C., Daniel Mize of Raleigh, N.C., Emily Mize Mould of Nashville, Kathryn Fisher of Ridgeland, Claire Fisher Gressett of Hattiesburg, Julianne James Isenberg of Tulsa, Jeffrey James of Los Angeles, and 11 great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, E.H. and Mildred Bell Fisher, and his sister Margie Fisher Hand.

Memorials may be made to the E. Harold and Martha Huggins Fisher Scholarship Fund at Blue Mountain College, P. O. Box 160, Blue Mountain, MS 38610.

RPS Note: Harold Fisher grew up in Tallulah, Louisiana. He graduated from Tallulah High School in 1948 (with me), where he was the president of his senior class.