tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1079719720306195477.post1199141875986070143..comments2024-03-26T17:47:32.229-07:00Comments on Ancestry Island: No Obituary for Russell Gayhardt Fister?Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740669075493056040noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1079719720306195477.post-9589849963846880942023-11-05T12:02:32.060-08:002023-11-05T12:02:32.060-08:00If the Fister family has any family reunions, plea...If the Fister family has any family reunions, please call me 520-405-3153. Thank you, Lois Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1079719720306195477.post-67709968331146444122023-05-23T16:42:05.654-07:002023-05-23T16:42:05.654-07:00Oh, wow, hello cousin Lois! :-) My dad met Russel...Oh, wow, hello cousin Lois! :-) My dad met Russell a few times. I never met him - I would have been about 3 1/2 when he died anyway. It always amazes me how quickly large families can lose touch with each other.Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14740669075493056040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1079719720306195477.post-63332080776999177002023-05-14T14:27:14.368-07:002023-05-14T14:27:14.368-07:00Thanks for recording all this on my father. He wa...Thanks for recording all this on my father. He was very interesting and I know little about him since he and my mother Winona Simons divorced when I was about 5 years old. Lois Fister SteeleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1079719720306195477.post-87914050367292005832021-09-10T12:46:47.725-07:002021-09-10T12:46:47.725-07:00Christine - any artifacts in the family that Russe...Christine - any artifacts in the family that Russell was involved with the Peace movement in the late 1950's? Certainly one of his medallic creations - the 1959 Intl. Petroleum exposition in Oklahoma - he added the word PEACE to the official logo design - quite unique at the time. Curious if their is more to the story here - a personal belief that he may have had.Scott's Numismatic Adventureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682293145035870277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1079719720306195477.post-10446473654895256302019-02-08T18:48:43.836-08:002019-02-08T18:48:43.836-08:00Very cool, Richard. Thank you for that info! :-)Very cool, Richard. Thank you for that info! :-)Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14740669075493056040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1079719720306195477.post-19748527792760203232019-02-04T09:23:10.343-08:002019-02-04T09:23:10.343-08:00Fister worked for B.I.A -Osage Indian tribe - in P...Fister worked for B.I.A -Osage Indian tribe - in Pawhuska OK. When he worked there the Supt was Ed A.Smith. I think they both retired about same time, and both went to Chicago. Smith had an interest in making medals of some Osage tribal leaders.<br />And he did by the( Chi Firm ) Meyer & Wenth CO ( tokens and medal makers ). I think smith and fister formed a partnership to sell the medals he or them had made.<br />Fister may have also sold coins. He did business @ 800 N.Clark St - rm 324 - Chicago 60610 . I never knew him, but I am a long time coin dealer and ended up buying the medals that were left , after Smiths death. Regards, RichardAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06966082753001831096noreply@blogger.com