Beatrice Wright, 103

Published 10:28 am Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Beatrice Wright, 103, of Austin and formerly of the Grand Meadow area, died Sunday Feb. 20, at Our Family Assisted living in Austin.

Beatrice Wright

She was born April 2, 1907, in Sargent to Henry and Myrtle Stephenson. She was the oldest of six children. Beatrice attended school in Spring Valley and graduated in 1925. She attended Winona State University and taught school for five years in the Spring Valley and Grand Meadow areas. In 1930, she married Benjamen Wright. They made their home in Grand Meadow, where Ben operated an Egg and Produce business. They had three children: Priscilla, Jon and Stephen. Beatrice was most of all a homemaker. She enjoyed cooking for her family and excelled at it. She loved antiques and collected them. She also had a passion for birds, studied them, fed them and enjoyed them. She also loved flowers, grew them and tended to them. She loved traveling and made three trips to Norway along with travel near home. She was very active in Lutheran church in Grand Meadow as well as the Eastern Star. Beatrice will be greatly missed by her family and friends and all who knew her. She was a joy to be with.

She is survived by three children: Priscilla Wright of Carpenterra, Calif., Jon (Pauline) Wright of Troy, Ohio, and Stephen (Anne Marie) Wright of Kongsberg, Norway, two grandchildren, Maya Wright and Kristopher Wright of Kongsberg, Norway, great-grandchildren, Magnus, Nora and Tuva Wright — all of Kongsberg, Norway; brother, Donald Stephenson of Minneapolis; cousins: Camilla Farnswarth and Robert Stephenson both of Austin; Doris Draper of Wisconsin Dells, Jim McClellan of Arizona; nieces and nephews, including special nieces Margie Benz of Redmond, Ore., Susan Wright Weise of Schaumberg, Ill., and many cherished friends.

Memorial services for Beatrice Wright will be held at 1 p.m. Friday Feb. 25, at the Hindt Funeral Home in Grand Meadow with the Reverand Ann Siverling officiating. Burial of the cremated remains will be in the Grand Meadow Cemetery. Condolences may be left at www.hindtfuneralhomes.com.