Fisher, Charles Richard

1932 - 2022

Charles Richard Fisher, of Dublin, Ohio died June 15, 2022 at Grant Medical Center. He was born May 16, 1932 in Des Moines, Iowa to the late Herbert Paul Fisher and Mary Elizabeth Richardson Fisher. Dick Fisher will be remembered as the President and CEO of Marion’s Howard Swink Advertising, later Fahlgren Swink and Fahlgren Martin. Dick was an avid golfer at the Marion Country Club

and Muirfield Village Golf

Club, leading the marketing efforts for the PGA Memorial Tournament in its early years. He was a founding member of the Central Ohio Wine Society. Dick was born in Iowa to a father from the Midwestern farm country and a mother from Georgia. They instilled in him a work ethic, quick sense of humor, and the belief that all people were his equals to be treated with respect and kindness. His father was the bakery manager of the A&P Grocery Stores so Dick moved at a very young age to Atlanta, Georgia and then Jacksonville, Florida, when his father was transferred to A&P’S New

York City office, Dick moved

to Long Island where he graduated from Huntington High School in 1950. He graduated from Syracuse

University in 1954 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising Design. There he was a member of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. After college he joined the Army and was a Lieutenant in Korea at the end of the

conflict. It instilled in him a

passion for world travel and

a fiery hatred of camping

and sleeping in tents. After college, he was offered a job at Howard Swink Advertising, which was a small Ohio Agency. There he thrived as an adman who was both a visual artist and an exceptional writer. With his creative partner, Blaine Gutermuth, they created a famous print ad that ran for 10 years in the Wall Street Journal; in the same position; on the same page; with the same headline “What’s an agency like Howard Swink Advertising doing in Marion Ohio?” Each week in a few lines of copy the small space ad answered the question with a humorous fact about the town and the agency - which grew big, merged and moved - with Dick as CEO. They had a string of well-known campaigns for clients that included Owens-illinois, Cedar Point, Drumstick, T. Marzetti, Dow Corning, Bank One and the city of Columbus. In Marion, he met his second wife, Ada Lee (Lutz) Fisher and they moved from Marion to Dublin in 1991. He retired from the agency and did consulting work for many private clients for years including pro-bono work for the James Cancer Center and work for Kodak. Dick was an exceptional man who had a keen intellect, sharp sense of humor and a love for both sports and the arts (visual, performing, music). One of his favorite songs was “Pennies from Heaven” by Johnny Burke, especially performed by Dick’s favorite singer Tony Bennett. Loving spouse, exceptional father, doting grandfather, great friend and dinner companion, Dick will be horribly missed but his loved ones will continue to draw comfort from his memory as someone who emphasized courage, strength and humor even in the face of life’s greatest challenges. Dick will be missed by his children, Stephen Weiss Fisher, Jane Elizabeth Fisher, Richard M. Fisher, and Kelly Windsor Fisher; and grandchildren, Thomas Charles Fisher, Theodore F. Fisher, Charles F. Fisher, Elizabeth F. Fisher, Herbert Fisher, Ada Marren Mcguire.

Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven

Don’t you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven?

You’ll find your fortune’s

falling all over the town

Be sure that your umbrella is upside down

Trade them for a package

of sunshine and flowers

If you want the things you love, you must have showers

So, when you hear it thunder, don’t run under a tree

There’ll be pennies from heaven for you and me

A gathering for friends and family will be held Friday, June 17, 2022 at Snyder Funeral Homes, DENZER Chapel (347 West Center St., Marion) from 4-7pm. Snyder Funeral Homes, Denzer Chapel is honored to serve Dick’s family. Online condolences may be expressed by visiting www. Snyderfuneralhomes.com.