FORMER Haslemere Mayor Dorothy Fisher, has died aged 98. She served as mayor from 1986 to 1987 and remained active in town life for many years.

In her early life Dorothy Fisher lived in London, Paris and Rome. She was a journalist with Reuters in Fleet Street during the Second World War, as well as volunteering at a local fire station during The Blitz.

After moving to Haslemere from Yorkshire in 1974 with her husband Dick, she became a town councillor and Waverley borough councillor before being appointed mayor.

She was also chairman of Waverley Citizens’ Advice Bureau management committee for five years, worked with the town’s blind club and was also a volunteer steward at Petworth House.

He son Mark said: “A member of the congregation at St Bartholemew’s Church, Haslemere, well into her 90s, she could be seen walking up and down the streets around her home delivering the parish magazine, in rain or shine.

“As part of the HADFAS recording team at St Bartholemew’s and St Christopher’s, she took pleasure in meticulously describing and recording the contents of the venerable books in the churches’ collections.

“In robust health almost to the end of her life, she hosted a regular Shakespeare reading group at her home and enjoyed trips around the country, including a two-hour walk round Salisbury Cathedral last year during which she did not sit down once and amazed everyone with her stamina.”

Mrs Fisher was widowed in 1992 and is survived by her daughter and son, as well as four grand-children and two great grand-children.

Her funeral will be held at St Bartholemew’s on Monday, February 26.