Alma Marie Couch Fisk-Sullivan, 99, died Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013.

She was born Feb. 7, 1917, in DeSoto, daughter of Willis Walter and Nettie Menetta Macatee Couch. She and Charles E. Fisk were married Nov. 20, 1934. He died in 1982. She then married Marion J. Sullivan in 1987. He died in 1991.

She moved to the Granite City, Ill., area in her young married years and raised her family. After her husband, Charles, retired, they moved to Summersville, where she lived with him until his death.

After her second husband, Marion, died, she moved to Hiawatha, Kan., to live near her daughter, Carol.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, Charles Fisk and Marion Sullivan; a son, Thomas E. Fisk; a stepdaughter, Sharon Gracheck; three sisters, Alice Skeleton, Florence Armstrong and Lillian Fancher; and two brothers, Rowe and Howard Couch.

Survivors include five children, Charles E. Fisk, Ruth M. Swain, Marion S. Fisk, Carol S. Sullivan and Bryce F. Fisk; 13 grandchildren; five step-grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; 15 step great-grandchildren; 13 great-great grandchildren; and nine step great-great grandchildren.

Graveside services are 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, in Summersville City Cemetery under the direction of Bradford Funeral Home. Visitation is noon until 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, at the funeral home.

Online condolences may be left at www.bradfordfuneralhome.net.

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