Typed by: Jan Shelfer
FISCHER, WALTER ERNEST
Surnames: FISCHER, MIMS, DORRELL
Walter Ernest Fischer, b. 1816 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas, d. in 1979-a son
of Walter Dan and Mabel Agnes (Mims) Fischer-attended school in Marlin and then
received his degree from Texas A&M College. He entered the U.S. Army in 1938,
and served in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He remained in the Army
Reserve until 1970, retiring as a Colonel.
In 1940, Walter Ernest Fischer married in Orange, Texas to Valma Dorrell. They
returned to Marlin, where he was associated in the plumbing business with his
father until 1952, when he and Valma moved with their two sons, Walter Dan
Fischer, II and Robert Ernest Fischer, to Rockdale, Texas to establish another
Fischer Company plumbing business.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing these bio of these
Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County," compiled and edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 155, column 1.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission