JOSEPH HENRY BISHER OF ST. LOUIS PASSED AWAY ON DEC. 30, 2025. HE WAS BORN IN ORAN, MISSOURI ON AUG.15, 1928. HE WAS A KOREAN WAR VETERAN, WAS EMPLOYED BY THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS. IN RETIREMENT HE AND HIS WIFE GREETED GUESTS AT THE GATEWAY ARCH. HE WAS A FAITHFUL MEMBER TO HIS AMERICAN LEGION, HOLDING MANY POSITIONS.
ON JULY 7, 1960 HE WAS MARRIED TO HIS LOVE OF LIFE, ELLIE. SHE PASSED AWAY IN AUG. 2017. HE IS SURVIVED BY TWO GRAND CHILDREN, KELLY BOMMARITO AND PHILIP PONCIROLI AND THREE GREAT GRAND CHILDREN. ALSO A SISTER-IN-LAW SHIRLEY BISHER AND MANY NEPHEWS AND NIECES. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS, JOE AND ANNIE BISHER; HIS SIBLINGS: MARTIN, SIMON, FERDINAND AND EARL BISHER AND RITA WITGES. ALSO SON-IN-LAW AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW: JOSEPH AND PHYLLIS PONCIROLI.
INTERMENT WILL BE AT JEFFERSON BARRACKS NATIONAL CEMETERY ALONG SIDE OF HIS LOVING WIFE ON JAN.16, 2026.
