Alice Smart Fisher LeMond
1/8/1925 - 8/3/2025

Alice Smart Fisher LeMond died on August 3, 2025, at the ranch home where she had lived for 77 years. Born in Utopia on January 8, 1925, Alice was 100 years and six months old. Her parents, Marshall Smart and Laura Caddel, lived on the head of Seco Creek where Marshall had settled with his father after moving from Florence in a covered wagon.

Alice attended school in Sabinal where she was elected the first drum major of the Yellowjacket Band in 1940. She moved to Houston for a year of cosmetology school before her marriage to Billy Fisher in 1942. They moved to the Fisher Ranch on Spring Branch Creek in 1948 where they raised a family of four daughters and one son. Alice was the typical hardworking ranch wife with a garden, milk cow, big pen of laying hens, various animal bottle babies and lots of laundry and cooking. She always strived to have a yard full of flowers even in tough times of little rainfall.

No one ever went hungry in Alice’s kitchen with mealtimes usually featuring extra guests such as the county agricultural agent, various ranch hands or just friends who happened to show up just in time for lunch. She expertly served up fried chicken, chicken and dumplings or fried venison and gravy.

Alice loved her children and grandchildren and many other young people who were not kin, serving as a surrogate mom and granny to several young people through the years. She showed up for all kinds of games and activities and was quick to express her pride in their efforts even if they spent most of the game sitting on the bench.

As a long time member of the Utopia Methodist Church, she taught Sunday School through several generations of youth and saw that her own children attended every Sunday regardless of how late they might have gotten home from a rodeo on Saturday night.

Her keen wit and warm smile endeared her to many, and she enjoyed sparring with the men at church when they handed out some good natured teasing.

Alice lived through the Great Depression, WWII where many of her friends lost their lives, the historic 1950’s drought, a divorce, death of a spouse and her only son at a young age. She remained a tough and determined ranch woman and only relinquished her job as head of the family on the morning of her death.

Alice was preceded in death by Billy Fisher, Doug LeMond, son Billy Sterling Fisher, granddaughter Mary Sutherland, son-in-law Richard Causey as well as her parents and brothers Dr. Ray Smart, Floyd Smart and Bill Smart.

She is survived by daughters Diane Causey Bryce (Tommy), Joan Clark (Tony), Kathy Lewis (Butch), Betty Boyce (Wayne), grandchildren Lauren Stiteler (Hank), Tana McBride (Wyatt), Toni Cantu (Tony), Wes Sutherland (Annette), Travis Sutherland (Noa), Dr. Whitney Boyce Scotty (Geoff) Sterlin Boyce, Laura Fisher Ketenbrink (Austin) and Allison Fisher Lindsey (Robert), twenty-one great-grandchildren and one great-great grandson.

Services will be held at 1:30 PM, Sunday, August 10, 2025, at Utopia Methodist Church.

Memorials may be sent to Utopia Methodist Church (PO Box 388) or the Utopia ISD Scholarship fund (PO Box 923).

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