Former Area resident Kandace Jean Fisher, 40, died Saturday, July 17, 2010, due to a fatal motorcycle accident south of Santa Fe N.M.
Services are 10 a.m. Saturday at Livingston-Butler-Volland Funeral Home chapel in Hastings with Ken Zimmerman officiating. Burial will be at Parkview Cemetery in Hastings. Visitation is 1-9 p.m. today and one hour prior to services Saturday both at the funeral home.
Memorials may be given to Heartland Pet Connection or Ovarian/Breast Cancer Research.
Concolences may be sent to http://www.lbvfh.com/.
Kandace is the daughter of Gary C. and Bonita K. Fisher of Louisburg, Kan. She was born atMather AFB in Sacramento, California on April 14, 1970. She spent the first ten years of her life as an Air Force brat. Her elementary and junior high education took place at St. Mary's in Goldsboro N.C. where she also learned how to play soccer. She moved to Sparta, N.J. in 1982 and completed junior high school and high school at Sparta High School. During her senior year, she was center forward on the girls' soccer team. Another sort in Junior high that she took on was snow skiing. She was on the Sparta Ski Racing Team all four of her high school years. This sport she continued all through life. This year she attended the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada and skied the slopes there. She lived life to the fullest, rode mountain bikes, kayaked, and ran in marathons. Two months ago she purchased a motorcycle and it truly lifted her spirit. She loved the feeling of freedom it gave her, which she craved. She lived the "Top Gun, hair on fire, lifestyle in all that she did.
Kandace was an honor student at Sparta High School in Sparta NJ and graduated in June 1988 from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. Where she received her Bachelor of Arts/English degree in 1992. She was a member of Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Association. In 1995 She received her Master of Arts/English Creative Writing degree. She was on the Dean's list. She is a published poet. After College, she did her massage Therapy Course of study at the Desert Institute of the Healing Arts in Tuscon, Ariz.
In 1998/1999, she was a college English instructor at Glendale Community College, Glendale, Ariz. In 2000, she began her career in various facets of IT (information Technology) at Envision in Santa Fe, N.M. In Feb. 2004, she went to work for Davis Security Advisers in their IT Division as a systems analyst/developer until her passing.
Her grandmother, Jean Gilbert of Blue Hill preceded her in death on Feb 12, 2005; as did her grandfather, Frank C. Fisher of Fairfield on May 30, 2008. She was also preceded in death by two aunts, Kathy Gilbert of Hastings, and Diane Gilbert of Sutton, as well as her cousin and good friend, Kelly Gilbert only a year ago, July 11, 2009.
Survivors include parents Gary C. and Bonita Kay Fisher of Louisburg, Kan; brother Curtis Fisher of Oxford, N. J. ; sister Christina Fisher of Calgary, Canada; grandfather Keith B. Gilbert of Blue Hill, Nebraska, grandmother Donna R. Fisher of Harvard, Nebraska, Uncles and aunts, Dana and Terri Fisher of Fairfield, Brian and Paula Schellpeper of Overland Park, Kansas, Ross and Barbara Fisher of Fairfield, Keith and Anne Gilbert of Red Cloud, Dick and Robin Gilbert of Hastings, Doug and Nikki Terri of Columbus, Kent and Laura Gilbert of Hastings, Brad and Tonna Gilbert, and Tim and Julie Gilbert of Blue Hill as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
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Police have identified the woman killed in a motorcycle crash Saturday as 40-year-old Kandace J. Fisher of Eldorado.
Fisher was the only person involved in the crash on state road 344 south of Golden and alcohol was not a factor, according Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano.
According to a Santa Fe County Sheriff's report, Fisher "entered the curve at an excessive rate of speed and lost control of the vehicle, laying it down on its side." Fisher and the 1984 red Honda Nighthawk 650cc motorcycle she was driving hit a guardrail.
Although Fisher was wearing a helmet, she was pronounced dead at the scene.
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