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Helen Louise Colby Wright

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Birth	:	2 Feb 1919 Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
Death	:	6 Dec 2002 Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine, USA
Burial	:	Laurel Grove Cemetery, Woolwich, Sagadahoc County, USA
Coordinate	:	43.9710999, -69.7850037
Inscription	:	WRIGHT Helen L. Feb. 2, 1919 Dec. 6, 2002
Description	:	1st husband Marriage Archives Single Record Display Certificate Number: Bride Name: COLBY HELEN L Bride Town/State: BATH, ME Groom Name: EMERSON JOHN F Groom Town/State: BATH, ME Date of Marriage: Friday August 21, 1936 2nd husband On May 26, 1943, she married Ralph C. Wright Jr. in Walla Walla, Wash. WOOLWICH Helen L. Wright, 83, died Friday, Dec. 6, 2002, with her family at her side, at Maine General Medical Center in Waterville. She was born in Bath, Feb. 2, 1919, a daughter of Charles H. and Vinette Huff Colby. She attended Bath schools. On May 26, 1943, she married Ralph... Read More	1st husband Marriage Archives Single Record Display Certificate Number: Bride Name: COLBY HELEN L Bride Town/State: BATH, ME Groom Name: EMERSON JOHN F Groom Town/State: BATH, ME Date of Marriage: Friday August 21, 1936 2nd husband On May 26, 1943, she married Ralph C. Wright Jr. in Walla Walla, Wash. WOOLWICH Helen L. Wright, 83, died Friday, Dec. 6, 2002, with her family at her side, at Maine General Medical Center in Waterville. She was born in Bath, Feb. 2, 1919, a daughter of Charles H. and Vinette Huff Colby. She attended Bath schools. On May 26, 1943, she married Ralph C. Wright Jr. in Walla Walla, Wash. Upon his discharge from the military, they returned to Woolwich. She was a member of the Rebekah's, a founding member of the Nequasset Trail Blazers, a member of a bowling league, the Union Bridge School Mother's Club, treasurer for the Laurel Grove Cemetery Association and a member of the West Point and Sebasco Estates Churches of the Nazarene. She worked as a switchboard operator for New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. in Wiscasset, as a waitress at the Oxhorn Inn and Restaurant and The Ledges Inn and Restaurant in Wiscasset. She took over her father's fish route, going door to door selling fresh fish, fruits and vegetables. She enjoyed cooking, fishing, moose and deer hunting, watching wild game, feeding birds, growing fruits vegetables and flowers, particularly gladiolus, summers at their camp in Meadowbrook, boating, watching Nascar races, the Sea Dogs and Boston Red Sox. She was predeceased by her husband of 44 years, who died Aug. 13, 1987; two sons, Charles Emerson and John Emerson, and a sister, Bernice Savory, who died June 12, 2001. Survivors include two sons, Robert B. Emerson and his wife, Sandra, of Woolwich, and Ralph C. Wright III of Woolwich; two daughters, Sharon A. Staples and her husband, Wallace, of Woolwich, and Lori A. Vining and her husband, Kenneth, of Jackman; two brothers, Charles H. Colby Jr. of Edgecomb, and Clarence Colby and his wife, Hazel, of New Sharon; 16 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Visiting hours are from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the David E. Desmond Funeral Home, 638 High St., Bath. A celebration of her life will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the First Bible Baptist Church, Middle Road (Route 127), Woolwich, with the Rev. Wallace E. Staples officiating. Interment will follow in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Middle Road, Woolwich. Memorial donations may be made to the Maine General Medical Center, Thayer Unit, 149 North St., Waterville, ME 04901, or to the Steeple Fund at Sebasco Estates Church of The Nazarene, c/o Edith M. Burgess, P.O. Box 135, Sebasco Estates, ME 04565. Death Archives Single Record Display Certificate Number: 211357 Last Name: WRIGHT First Name: HELEN Middle Name: LOUISE Date of Death: Friday, December 6, 2002 Town of Death: WATERVILLE Age at Death: 83 Years

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Helen Louise Colby Wright's memorial is located at: Laurel Grove Cemetery, Woolwich, Sagadahoc County, USA.
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Helen Louise Colby Wright death on 6 Dec 2002 in Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine, USA
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Latitude: 43.9710999
Longitude: -69.7850037

Family Members:

Parent

Charles Herbert Colby

(1892 - 1961)

Vinettie E. Huff Colby

(1895 - 1931)

Spouse

Ralph C. Wright Jr.

(1921 - 1987)

Siblings

(1917 - 1917)

(1923 - 2006)

(1925 - 1926)

(1929 - 1929)

Children

Ralph C Wright

(1945 - 2019)

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