Called home by her Heavenly Father, Phyllis Madelon Martin graduated from this life to the next on June 16, 2010 after  29,130 days of life on Earth.

The loving care she devoted to her patients in decades of nursing she learned from the love of family. A  loyal person who made lifelong friendships, Phyllis will be missed by all who knew her and loved her. A 1957 graduate of Memorial (South Bend) School of Nursing, She pursued excellence, knowledge and professionalism in every phase of her remarkable career eventually earning her master’s degree in counseling at College of St.Francis while working on the critical edge of emergency room trauma care for 25 years at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill.

She finished out her working life as the “jail nurse” at St.Joseph County Jail (South Bend), where her patient advocacy and sincere interest in the inmates influenced many lives and brought comfort and care to those who had fallen on hard times.

She even gave blood 66 times. A lifelong volunteer, especially after retirement, Phyllis spent many years at the front desk of the Center For The Homeless, where she put to practical use the lessons she was learning at her beloved Granger Community Church. Active at the church and in “small group,” she truly lived out the truths she believed and exercised living faith to surmount life’s difficulties developing strength of character by unselfish service to those worthy in need.

All who socialized with her came to anticipate  enjoying her exquisite baking skills — she was a “Cookie Gramma First Class,” and passed along her love and knowledge of cooking to her son, Bill, and her two grandchildren, Michael and Billy. She went to her just rewards as a faith child of the Most High safe in the Kingdom all of you who by faith enter therein and remain therein by the living service of truth, shall surely ascend to the worlds on high and sit with her in the spirit kingdom of our Father.

Daughter of Rolland Fisher and Mildred (Clark) Fisher, Phyllis is survived by Carolyn Sue Reiter, Adolf Lee “Bud” Fisher, Nancy Ellen Nelson and Rolland James Fisher.

Preceding her in death were Alan Elwood Fisher, Margaret Ann Rider, Edna Marie Nichols, Lanny Ray Fisher, Norman Eugene Fisher, Boyd Eugene Fisher and Charles Edward Fisher.

Join us in celebrating  her life on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 5 p.m.  “Dr. Bob” Laurent, Granger Community Church’s beloved associate pastor, will conduct a graveside memorial at Oak Ridge Cemetary in Buchanan, Mich.