Clarice Wright
Clarice Wright
Clarice Wright
Clarice Wright

Obituary of Clarice Annabelle Wright

Clarice Annabelle (Watson) Wright passed peacefully from this life at 11:06 p.m. on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, with family at her side. Born in Spokane, Washington, on August 12, 1916, Ann led an incredible life and was a blessing to everyone she encountered during her life’s journey of almost 105 years. She was the daughter of Asa E. and Ida B. Watson; sister of Lillian, Asa (Em), Rosalie and William; wife of Robert L. Wright; mother to five children: Diana Meyer (Burt), Robert (Julie), John (Elizabeth), June Simpson (Stuart), and Jean (Sandy); and grandmother to Ian, Kelsey, Robert and Sarah.

 

Growing up in Spokane, she attended Audubon Elementary, Havermale Jr. High, North Central High School and Trend Business College. After schooling, she moved to Washington, D.C., and worked for the Navy Department for several years. While on a Greyhound bus, she met her future husband, Robert Wright. He was traveling to Washington state, she touring through California. Bob was in the Navy and on his way to Bremerton for duty on the Battleship Nevada. They married on August 13, 1940, in Virginia and lived there and in Maine, California and Texas during the remainder of Bob’s naval career, finally buying a home and settling in Olympia in 1957.

 

Ann’s Christian faith was her core and she and Bob were founding members of St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church, where she taught Sunday school and served on the alter guild. Ann led so many ways by example. She was a skilled homemaker who made the best homemade bread, cookies and potato salad, and a wonderful mother who was deeply committed to her family and community. She inspired her children to be interested and engaged in the world around them and to seek its beauty. Always making time to serve her community, Ann was a volunteer secretary for the Griffin Fire District #13 for 12 years and served almost every Election Day, staffing Schneider’s Prairie polling place from dawn to dusk. She canned fruit and vegetables from her garden and taught 4-H cooking and sewing groups. She loved the outdoors, hiking, camping, playing tennis, and she and Bob travelled the world for months in the days before luggage with wheels and ADA accessibility. She was a 55-year member of Prosperity Grange on Steamboat Island Road, and a daughter of the American Revolution.

 

Ann was a beautiful and delightful person who cared deeply about others and took time to listen. Always positive about life, Ann appreciated the little things, and her optimism and uplifting spirit inspired those who encountered her. She loved her family, laughter, sunny days, flowers, happy events and music, and she will be dearly missed. 

 

She was preceded in death by her husband and partner of 70 years, Bob; her eldest daughter, Diana; and Diana’s husband, Burt Meyer.

 

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