Gregory David Fischer

Gregory David Fischer, born December 9, 1973 in Deer Park, New York to Jeffrey Fischer and the late Providence Placa, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, November 16, 2014 at his home in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Greg graduated from Half Hollow Hills High School East and studied at SUNY New Paltz, New York and SUNY Farmingdale, New York. Thereafter, he relocated to Florida, Arizona and Costa Rica. He was a personal trainer, entrepreneur and Big Brother volunteer. Greg traveled the world, meeting the love of his life, Ann Patton Bender, in Costa Rica.

Greg is survived by his loving father Jeffrey and step-mother Susan (O'Leary) Fischer, his beloved brother Brian and his fiancee, Elizabeth Alicea, his adored nieces, Ashley and Alexis Fischer-Kennedy, his amor, Ann Patton Bender, his "little brother" Aleksandr Kalashnikov, his much-loved aunts, uncles, cousins and his treasured network of friends.

Greg was predeceased by his devoted mother, Providence Placa, his Grandparents Henry (Buddy) and Mary Fischer and Frank and Anna Placa.

Memorial Visitation will take place, 1:00 – 4:00 pm, at Claude R. Boyd-Spencer Funeral Homes, 255 Higbie Lane, West Islip, New York 11795 on Saturday, December 6, 2014. For further information, or help with directions, kindly call the funeral home at (631) 669-8338. www.boyd-spencerfuneralhome.com.

AFTER GLOW

I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one. I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when day is done. I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I'd like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun of happy memories that I leave behind when day is done.