- Date Of Birth: May 8, 1922
- Date Of Death: May 17, 2012
- State: Iowa
Helen Gertrude Wright was born May 8, 1922 in Dunbar, Nebraska to Claude and Bertha Phillips. She passed from this life Thursday, May 17, 2012 at the Corydon Nursing and Rehab Center, in Corydon, Iowa at the age of 90 years.
Helen grew up and went to school in the Dunbar area. In 1939, she graduated from the Dunbar High School. In 1940, she married her high school sweetheart and to this union a daughter was born, Launa Lee. In 1950, Helen and her husband parted ways.
In 1951, she met and married an Army soldier, Ernest Reed Wright. To this union two more children were born, a son, Michael Reed in 1952 and a daughter, Sally Ann was born in 1957. Throughout Helen’s life she work hard and was a homemaker for her family. She raised her three children and they possessed three distinct personalities. Her life wasn’t always the easiest of lives. However, they say God only gives us what we can handle, so with the help of God she was able to handle what came her way.
In 1999, her husband, Reed Wright passed away. In 2003, her son, Michael Reed passed away and went home to Heaven. Tragedy struck again in 2008 when she lost her daughter, Sally Ann as well. Due to Helens’ increasingly poor health she was moved to the Corydon Nursing and Rehab Center in Corydon, Iowa in 2010. At the age of 90 years and 8 days she was reunited with her children in Heaven.
Helen was preceded in death by her parents, Claude and Bertha Phillips;
her husband, Ernest Reed Wright; her children, Michael Reed Wright and Sally Ann McDaniel; her sisters, Bertha Ruckman and Caroline Peterson; and her brother, Earl Phillips.
She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Launa and John Myers of Warsaw, Missouri; her son-in-law, Jerry McDaniel of Chariton, Iowa; her daughter-in-law, Donna Wright of Chariton, Iowa; granddaughter, Kimberly Wright of Des Moines, Iowa; and three nieces, Kay Austin of Chicago, Illinois, May Jo Beck of Plano, Texas and Judy Ruckman of Lincoln, Nebraska.
