Elizabeth Betty Wright Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Elizabeth Irish "Betty" Wright, age 91, a resident of Wheaton, IL, went to be with the Lord on Friday, February 9, 2018, at Brighton Gardens in Wheaton, Illinois. Betty was born on January 17, 1927 in Jerusalem, Israel to Leigh Fellow Irish and Carolyn F. Irish, who were Christian missionaries in Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Israel. The family moved back to the United States in 1938 when she was age ten. Some three years later, the family returned to Jerusalem. In 1946, at age nineteen, she returned to the States to attend college. She served as a secretary at the Christian Missionary Alliance headquarters in New York. She married William Deane Wright, a graduate of Wheaton College, in 1953. In 1963, her husband accepted a position teaching mathematics at Middle Georgia College, now Middle Georgia State University, so they moved to Cochran, Georgia. Betty then continued her education at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, where she graduated with a Master's Degree in teaching in 1965. She taught first grade in the Cochran School System until 1983. In Cochran, Betty and Deane attended the Cochran First Baptist Church. Among her other endeavors, in 1995 Betty co-authored a book with her mother, Sharing Good Tidings in Zion, an Account to God's Faithfulness to Mideast Missionaries. In 2013, due to failing health, Betty moved to Brighton Gardens, Illinois to be near her sister-in-law Charlene L. Irish and niece Laurel "Lolly" Kietzman. She was happy and content with staff members and activities there, enjoying craft and other projects, fitness programs, trips out to restaurants and parks, as well as attending Blanchard Road Alliance Church. Betty is survived by her sister-in-law Charlene Irish of Wheaton, three nieces, Lolly Kietzman of Wheaton, Illinois, Peggy Ferdinand of Hayfield, Minnesota, Beth Hatch of Redding, California, and a nephew, Tim Irish of Ocean Side, California. She was predeceased by her husband Deane in 2006 and her only sibling, brother Harold Leigh Irish in 1993. Graveside services are scheduled at 2:30 PM on Sunday, February 25, 2018, at the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Cochran, Georgia, where she will be interred next to her husband Deane. The Rev. Ken Brooks of Cochran First Baptist Church will be officiating. Fisher Funeral Home in Cochran (478-934-6336) has charge of arrangements.

Elizabeth Betty Wright

January 17, 1927 - February 9, 2018