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Beverly M. Fisher (1924-2017)

Beverly M. Fisher (1924-2017)

Real estate agent was an avid golfer

Beverly M. Fisher, a sales whiz in jewelry and then real estate known for putting clients at ease, died Wednesday in the South Toledo home of her son Dave. She was 93.

She was under the care of Hospice of Northwest Ohio, her son John Fisher, Jr., said, and had been in failing health for several months.

She retired from real estate sales about 20 years ago. She suffered injuries caused by the way her car’s airbag deployed in a low-speed collision, her son John said.

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Mrs. Fisher began her career at Max Davis Jewelers in the Westgate Village Shopping Center. Behind the counter, she modeled the jewelry she sold, son John said.

“She was one of Max Davis’ best sales ladies,” her son said. “She wasn’t a pushy salesman. She tried to help the customer and was good at realizing what they wanted. People felt good to buy from her, because they felt so good about the way she treated them.”

After about 15 years, she decided to try real estate sales. She and her husband, John — a salesman for Kuhlman Corp., the concrete and building product supplier — took classes and passed exams to win their state licenses.

“He ended up putting signs up for my mom,” son John said. She sold houses big and small for several local firms. She had an eye for what sellers should do to attract the interest of buyers.

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“Hard to believe any more, but she really was on the side of the buyer to make sure they bought what they wanted and needed and could afford,” son John said. “She just loved homes and loved to go in homes and to get people into homes.”

Indeed, she and her husband bought and lived in five or six homes in a dozen years, son John said.

She was contacted in 1985 by Clifford Loss, a builder and developer who became a Realtor, as he opened his own Loss Realty Group. They knew each other from Highland Meadows Golf Club, where they were members. He knew “she was doing a good job at other Realtors,” her son John said.

Mrs. Fisher in turn encouraged Mr. Loss to recruit her sales colleague Donna Pollex-Najarian.

“She was so highly respected in the real estate market,” Mrs. Pollex-Najarian said. “She had the highest integrity. She treated everybody like it was one of her family.”

She had a quick wit, liked to have fun, “but took her business very seriously,” Mrs. Pollex-Najarian said. “She was a versatile person. She was the only person I know who could play 18 holes of golf and sell three houses in one evening. She was amazing.”

Mrs. Fisher’s golf score at Highland Meadows tended to be in the low 80s, son John said. She and her husband were members for more than 40 years. She also was a member of the Toledo District Golf Association.

She was a life member of the Toledo Board of Realtors’ Million Dollar Club.

She was born Jan. 7, 1924, in LaCrosse, Wis., to Eunice and Everette Richardson. She was young when her mother died in childbirth. She was adopted by an aunt and uncle who lived in Rossford’s Eagle Point Colony. She attended Maumee Valley Country Day School, was a 1941 graduate of Scott High School, and attended the University of Toledo. She worked at Rossford Ordnance Depot during World War II.

She and her husband married in January, 1946. He died May 10, 2015.

Surviving are her sons John Fisher, Jr., and Dave Fisher; four grandsons, and five great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Maison-Dardenne-Walker Funeral Home, Maumee, where friends will be received after 11 a.m.

The family suggests tributes to Cherry Street Mission.

Contact Mark Zaborney at: mzaborney@theblade.com or 419-724-6182.

First Published May 6, 2017, 4:00 a.m.

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