(April 11, 1916-September 14, 2005)

COLTON--A memorial service for Eva W. Wright, 89, of 7 Arbuckle Lane, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Zion Episcopal Church with the Revs. Patricia Lavine and Cannon Curtis Denney officiating. Burial will be in Morley Cemetery.

Mrs. Wright died Wednesday evening at Canton-Potsdam Hospital, Potsdam.

There will be no calling hours. Arrangements are with Buck Funeral Home, Colton.

A homemaker, she was interested in genealogy, tracing her family roots from Scotland, England, Australia and Canada. She received a visit from a relative who resides in Australia. She enjoyed sewing and created works in the folk art form known as primitive applique.

Born April 11, 1916, in Sharbot Lake, Ontario, a daughter of James and Harriet Carslake Whan, she married Frederick Wright on June 23, 1938, at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Massena, with the Rev. Louis VanEss officiating. Mr. Wright died March 8, 1995.

Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, John and Leigh, Alpharetta, Ga.; three daughters and sons-in-law, Jenny and Willy Grimmke, Colton and Roswell, Ga., Ingrid and Gerald Berglund, Clearwater, Fla., and Christina and Robert Brown, Acworth, Ga.; a son-in-law, Joseph Liotta, Norwood; 14 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, a great-great-granddaughter and several nieces and nephews.

A daughter, Harriet "Mickey" Liotta, died Aug. 7. A brother, Carl Whan, and a sister, Lois French, also died before her.

Donations may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care of St. Lawrence Valley, Zion Episcopal Church Food Pantry or the Sierra Club.

(From the Friday, September 16, 2005 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page D7).