Helen Margaret Wright

Mrs. Helen Margaret Graeber Wright, 99, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday, May 27, 2014, after almost six years in residence at Trinity Oaks Lutheran Home in Salisbury where her 100th birthday celebration had been planned for May 31, 2014.

A memorial service will be held at 11:00 am Saturday, May 31, 2014, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Landis. Rev. Dr. Jarrod Lanning will officiate. Interment will be at 9:30 am Saturday at Greenlawn Cemetery in China Grove.

The family will receive friends from 10:30 to 11:00 am Saturday prior to the service.

She was born in East Spencer on May 30, 1914 to the late Charles H. and Jenny Margaret Alexander Graeber and was married to the late Joe Alexander Wright, Sr. An accomplished violinist and pianist, Mrs. Wright graduated from Cannon High School in Kannapolis and attended Queens College and Salem College. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church where she served many years as Sunday school teacher for both children and adults and was active in the Nell Lipe Circle. Her piano students will remember her as their pleasant and patient piano teacher.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by four sisters, Queen Graeber McAtee, Marie Graeber Davis, Mary Graeber McKinley and Geneva Graeber.

She is survived by two sons, Charles “Jerry” F. Wright and Joe A. Wright, Jr., both of Landis; two daughters, Nancy W. Phipps (Joseph W.) of Winston-Salem and Wanda W. Karriker (Ron) of Catawba; seven grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Trinity Lutheran Church Building Fund, 108 West Rice Street, Landis, NC 28088.