Andrew R. Fisher

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Native Staten Islander Andrew R. Fisher, 76, a retired accountant and U.S. Army veteran who is remembered as a loving brother, died died Sunday in Golden Gate Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, Meiers Corners, where he had resided since 2013.

Mr. Fisher was born in Dongan Hills, and was a teenager when he moved to Brooklyn with his family.

A graduate of Fort Hamilton High School, he earned an associate's degree in business adminstration from City College of New York, Manhattan.

Mr. Fisher served in the U.S. Army from 1961 until 1963.

He worked for 26 years as an accountant, including at American Smelting & Refining Co, National Securities and Pegg & Pegg in Manhattan.

He enjoyed coin collecting.

Mr. Fisher returned to the Island in 1989, settling in Grasmere.

He attended St. Sylvester's R.C. Church in Concord.

Surviving is his sister, Anna Jacobs.

The funeral will be Friday from the Virginia Funeral Chapel, with a mass at 10 a.m. in St. Ann's R.C. Church, both in Dongan Hills. Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.