Family of PFC Henry Lee Fisher
HAVEN, Kan. — The family of PFC Henry Lee Fisher will be hosting a spaghetti feed fundraiser at the Haven Community Center located at 215 S Reno in Haven on Sunday, April 14, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The purpose of this fundraiser is to raise the funds needed to pay for memorial highway signs to honor the service and sacrifice of PFC Henry Lee Fisher who was KIA in Vietnam in 1967.
Kansas House Bill 2481, which has passed the House and Senate with unanimous support, will designate 96 Highway between the eastern and western city limits of Haven the PFC Henry Lee Fisher Memorial Highway. The family is responsible for 100% of the costs of these signs.
Henry Lee Fisher grew up in Haven along with his three siblings and graduated Haven High School in 1965.
He joined the Army with two buddies right out of high school but was actually rejected due to a hernia they found during his physical. He could have walked away at that point and almost certainly avoided Vietnam but he felt so strongly about serving his country that he came home, had a surgery to repair the hernia, and went back and joined again.
Henry Lee Fisher was assigned to the 16th Infantry- 1st Infantry Division and sent to the frontlines of Vietnam. Sadly, he would not return home as he was KIA in Vietnam in 1967.
Henry believed deeply in serving his country and he gave the ultimate sacrifice doing just that.
It is only fitting that we memorialize his service and sacrifice and want to encourage everyone to come enjoy some spaghetti and garlic bread and help us to make this local soldier’s highway memorial a reality.
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