Laura Mae Fisher Tesseneer

Laura Mae Fisher Tesseneer of Campbellsville, daughter of the late Herbert Cooper Fisher and Bernice Wyman Fisher, was born in Graves County, Kentucky on August 30, 1923. She died at 7:24 a.m., on Thursday, February 13, 2014 at her home.The life of Laura Tesseneer was focused on family, church, higher education and involvements in the various communities in which she lived. After her early life in Earlington, Kentucky, she attended Murray State College where she earned a degree in Physics, with minors in Math, English, and Art. Her first job was as a Math teacher in Vienna, Illinois. On May 5, 1946, Laura married Ralph Athen Tesseneer, Jr. of Littleville, Alabama and they had three children. Their lives together were spent in the area of higher education at these institutions/communities:Tufts College in Framingham, Massachusetts, Western Kentucky State College in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, McNeese State College in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky, the University of Durham in Durham, England, and Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, Kentucky. During this time, she received a Master?s Degree in Counseling and worked for some time in that field, as well as serving as editor/illustrator for the Northern Kentucky University alumni magazine, ?The Communique?. She was a writer/illustrator, artist, gardener, amateur architect and traveler. Her creative and organizational skills were boundless, influencing people in many spheres, and she showed hospitality to international persons in each community where they lived. Outside church and home, Laura?s important activities included Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority, the PEO Sisterhood, the Women?s Club of Kentucky, and the Coterie Club of Campbellsville. Laura is survived by her husband, Dr. Ralph Tesseneer, and by her children: Susan T. Walters and husband, Joe, of Campbellsville, Ralph A. Tesseneer, III, M.D. and wife, Beverly, of Spartanburg, South Carolina and Herbert H. Tesseneer and wife, Gale, of Florence, Kentucky; three grandchildren: John Athen Tesseneer, Neely T. Benton and husband, Brad, and Davaajargal Dorjsuren. She was preceded in death by a grandson, Ralph Joseph Walters, on July 29, 1993. She had two great grandsons: Thomas Athen Benton and John William Benton of Moorhead, Minnesota. Also surviving are one brother and two sisters: J. Edward Fisher, M.D. and wife, Martha, of Atlanta, Georgia, Rebecca Jean Fesmire of Cloverdale, Alabama, and Evelyn Spencer and husband, Bob, M.D., of Louisville, Kentucky, along with several nieces and nephews.