Gary Scott Fisher

Scott Fisher passed away on August 5, 2025, at 80 years of age, in his Santa Fe, New Mexico home after a prolonged struggle with Parkinson’s Disease, with two sisters and a loving caregiver at his side.

Born in Buffalo NY, Scott eventually became the older and only brother to JoAnn, Toby, Diane (now deceased), Susan (who, at the age of 20 married Bill Mrosek, the brother Scott had always wanted), and Debbie (his fifth and youngest sister who came with Queenie, a consolation dog).

Scott spent school day afternoons at his grandmother’s house engrossed in the crackling radio productions of The Lone Ranger. This spurred his ever growing fascination with home entertainment and his lifetime hobby of recording vintage to contemporary radio productions. He created mixed tapes long before it was a thing, with classical and contemporary artists from Mozart to Bob Dylan – many of which he recorded on his cherished reel to reel deck and later on cassettes. His audio file obsession was slowly overtaken by his vast collection of movies on laser disc and dvds containing titles from Pixar to Arthouse. He loved sharing them.

At 14, in a woody station wagon filled with eight people and a dog, he and his family moved to Tucson, Arizona. He was a member of the first graduating class at Rincon High School and later graduated with an MA in social psychology from Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, Arizona.

During college school summers he ran away to the circus in New York to assist the lion tamers in keeping the cages clean — he even ran the ropes for the trapeze artists.

Shortly after graduating he was off to another kind of adventure in Tsaile, Arizona located in Navajo Nation where he thrived in his first full time job at Dine’ College (Navajo Community College). He loved both working with his colleagues and entertaining their children. In fact, Saturday mornings he’d open his home to the kids and together they happily played with his large supply of toys while watching cartoons on his state of the art television.

After a short stint in Escondido, California, he found his perfect home and his people in Santa Fe. A computer geek by anyone’s standard, he flourished at CSI and later at Vista Control Systems in Los Alamos. When the 58,000 acre Cerro Grande fire broke out in Los Alamos, Scott, true to form, offered his own home to store their computers.

He was the “go to guy”, known world wide. He was the absolute right person to help troubleshoot a problem with his beyond thorough explanations, directions, how to’s — he left no request unanswered, always tying them neatly in bows of humor and wit. When it came to helping various tech-challenged family members, his patience was tried and won (most of the time).

While most certainly an introvert, Scott readily drew people to him — there was no denying his kindness and unending well of generosity, nor his sarcasm and wit, delivered with his dazzling smile and sparkling blue eyes. His list of life long friends is impressive from work to family to neighbors.

Scott was, without question, always there for his family, housing various members during troubled times, delivering unexpected gifts (suddenly a needed item would appear on the doorstep). Though he didn’t want to hear troubling things unless he could help, he listened with a nonjudgmental ear to their woes, made computer troubles magically go away overnight and on and on. His family knew beyond a doubt he’d support them in any and all ways. In his words, “The point here is that we take care of each other.”

We are all the better for having known Scott. He will be forever remembered and deeply missed.