Lori Ann Robinson Fisher died on April 15 at home with her family by her side. She was 63.

She was born on Oct. 21, 1959 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. She attended Tisbury Elementary School and the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, where she met her soulmate of 49 years and future husband of 47 years, Francis (Sandy) Fisher Jr. of Edgartown.

Soon after their marriage, Lori started her family. She went on to excel in a myriad of roles throughout her 63 years of life. Among her many roles — most notably a wife, mother, grandmother and friend — she also was a certified EMT, a school bus driver, the unit secretary for acute care at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital for more than 10 years, a scalloper and an assistant gravedigger.

She then founded and operated the Islanders Talk page on Facebook, a group that now has 20,000+ members. In 2016, she was honored by the Women Empowered organization as Woman of the Year for founding Islanders Talk.

In her spare time, Lori found joy in filming the Martha’s Vineyard RCBL games and running a weekly billiards tournament at Seasons Eatery and Pub. She also volunteered for drug abuse awareness organizations.

Lori, Sandy, and their children spent countless days of summer commercial shellfishing on the “pond-side” down Katama. The brown 1975 four-wheel drive van was usually in the center of the massive crowd that gathered to have a community cookout every weekend.

Just like her husband, she loved to fish. She didn’t miss many Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derbies and was always up before the sun to take her kids to every fishing derby for children on the Island.

She loved fishing for bones and albies and throwing live butterfish from Memorial Wharf with the rest of the “wharf rats.” She would never pass up a night of bottom fishing down at the beach.

Lori loved helping others. Family and friends meant everything to her and she made sure to show it. If anyone needed help or advice she would be there with a smile on her face. If someone needed a place to stay or a hot meal, she made sure they got it. Her door was always open to anyone and everyone. She saw the best in people and believed everyone deserved a second chance. She made sure to influence others to think the same way.

Most of all, she loved the Island and Islanders. She was very proud to be a multi-generational native of Martha’s Vineyard.

Lori is survived by her husband Francis (Sandy) Fisher Jr.; children Francis (Sandy) Fisher 3rd, Angie Fisher and Leanna Fisher-Evans; brothers Albert and Clifton Robinson; sisters Rhonda Fauteux and Deborah Manley-Smith; grandchildren Cameron Maciel, Tayla BenDavid, Vincent and Jax Trott, Cuyler, and Christian Fisher.

She was predeceased by her sons Jared and Terrance Fisher, and her parents Louise and Albert Robinson.

A beautiful celebration of life will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 17 to honor Lori. It will be held at the P.A. Club in Oak Bluffs.