The Transylvania Times -

Joan Susan Lyday Fisher, 64, of Lake Toxaway, passed on Jan. 6, 2018.

The daughter of Neil Clarence Lyday and Dorothy Augusta Rice, she was born in Highlands and was raised in the Whitewater community. The eldest of five siblings, she spent her childhood helping to raise them.

She loved picking wildflowers, jarring honey and making jelly, while listening to her father chase hounds through the mountains of what is now Gorges State Park.

She later became a successful general contractor and was a loving mother and grandmother. She will be greatly missed by all.

She was preceded in deat...