The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., July 21, 1966, page 1
The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., July 21, 1966, page 3

DEATH CALLS HOPE WRIGHT

     Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today, Thursday, July 21 at Gardner's Chapel for Mrs. Marguerite Hope Wright, 81, one of White Salmon's most beloved residents for 63 years.
     Burial will be in the Goodwill Cemetery.
     Mrs. Wright, known as " Ma" to hundreds of persons, has been in failing health for several years. She was admitted to Skyline Hospital last Saturday and died there at 4:45 p.m. Tuesday.
     Her daughter Mildred, Mrs. Chester Beach of Juneau, Alaska has been with Mrs. Wright since July 11. Another daughter, Bethel Johnson of Yakima, has made several trips to White Salmon during the past month.
     Two son, Charles Wright of Sitka and Laddie Wright of Anchorage, Alaska flew down from Alaska Tuesday without knowing that the other brother was on the same plane.
    All four children are staying up their mother's home in White Salmon. An obituary will be published next week.

The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., July 21, 1966, page 1

SERVICES

     Mrs. Hope Wright's services will be held at Gardner's Funeral Chapel Thursday (today) at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., July 28, 1966, page 3
The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., July 28, 1966, page 12

MA WRIGHT FOUND GOD IN FRIENDS, WORK AND GARDEN
"Ma" Wright

     Funeral services for Mrs. Marguerite Hope (Ma) Wright, 81, White Salmon, were held at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 21 at Gardner's Chapel. The Rev. Alfred J. Waln paid tribute to kindness, friendliness and neighborliness.
     The service included music and selected poems appropriate to "Ma" Wright's love of garden and all growing things.
     Bearers were Larry Fields, Wm. C. Manly, R.H. (Dick) Crothers, Dean Anderson, Fred W. Fraser and Oscar Estes. Burial was in the family plot in Goodwill Cemetery.
     Mrs. Wright was born in St. Clair County, Missouri on Sept. 13, 1884 and was married to Charles Sheldon Wright at Oceola, Missouri on March 12, 1903. Soon after their marriage they moved to the White Salmon area.
     Their first home in this vicinity was on a houseboat on Draino Lake west of Underwood. In 1905 they moved to a Panakanic homestead out of Glenwood and in 1911 to White Salmon were Mr. Wright died in 1939.
     Ma Wright knew hard times better than good but she never complained. She believed in hard work, honesty and generosity - providing that she did the giving. She fully enjoyed working as a fruit packer for 47 years until aged compelled her retirement only five years ago.
     Except for last winter which she spent in Yakima with her daughter Ethel, Ma Wright insisted on remaining in her own home until the Saturday before her death. She died Tuesday, July 19, in Skyline Hospital, White Salmon.
     She is survived by two sons, Charles Wright of Sitka, Alaska, and Laddie of Anchorage; and two daughters, Mrs. Ethel Johnson of Yakima and Mrs. Mildred Beach of 923 Glacier Ave., Juneau, Alaska. She was preceded by three children: Bessie, Agnes and Stella.
     Also surviving are a sister-in-law, Mrs. Viola Wright of White Salmon, 12 grandchildren, nine great grandchildren and five great great-grandchildren.

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