Catherine Texana Fisher's Obituary
FISHER CATHERINE TEXANA FISHER Texana Fisher of Dallas died in her sleep in the early morning hours of April 26, 2010. She had been bravely battling a devastating disease for many years and finally succumbed. She was 24 years old. Texana was a brilliant, beautiful, woman blessed with enormous talent and a sense of humor that carried her through her most trying moments. She attended Armstrong Elementary School and The Hockaday School in Dallas. She entered Wellesley College directly after her junior year of high school in Rome and then transferred to Harvard University as a sophomore, where she was a member of the Class of ”07, majoring in German Studies. Texana was a talented linguist. She spoke fluent German, Italian, Spanish and some Russian. While still a high school student, she translated for her father, a former diplomat, in his meetings with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and then Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. She spent a summer as a translator and guide for English- and Italian-speak ing visitors at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. She worked in the rain forest of Costa Rica translating for a German botanist during the day and teaching English to local townspeople at night. She loved the arts, and found joy in writing and painting. Texana”s poetry won an international award, and she was also a gifted artist. She won the top art award at National Cathedral School in Washington, DC, which purchased her painting for the school”s permanent collection. During her junior year of high school, she worked at the Italian National Museum of Archeology as an artist sketching historical artifacts for the museum”s archives. One of her paintings also hangs in the Hasty Pudding Club at Harvard. Texana had a remarkable sense of humor, a dazzling wit and a contagious smile. Even when she was suffering most, she would always summon a humorous quip, delivered with impeccable timing, to comfort her doctors, parents and loved ones. Texana is survived by her father and mother, Richard and Nancy Fisher of Dallas and Washington, DC; her sister, Alison; her brothers, James and Anders; her sister-in-law, Ossa; her nieces, Anna and Amelie, and her grandmother, Dee Collins Torbert, also of Dallas. They loved her dearly and are comforted that she is now in the arms of the Lord and is no longer suffering. A memorial service will be held for Texana at 5 p.m., Wednesday, May 5 at the Caruth Auditorium in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. A reception immediately following the service will be held in the Bob Hope Lobby adjacent to the Caruth. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Texana”s honor to the Fisher Family Professorship in Women”s Mental Health Studies at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center or the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University.
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