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Barbara Ann (Beane) Wright

Posted 2019-12-20 by mhenderson
Published in Today'e News-Herald on Dec. 19, 2019 -
Lake Havasu City, Arizona -
(personal article, page 6)

Barbara Ann Wright, long time resident of Lake Havasu City, passed
away peacefully December 12, 2019 at the age of 87 in the Polidori
Home surrounded by her family.

Known as Barb to some members of her family and friends, she was born
on August 20, 1932 to Myron and Lulu Ellen Beane in Dayton, Ohio. The
family including her sister, Billie, moved to Whittier, California in
1936 where Barbara graduated from high school. She attended Whittier
College, and then married and had two children, Cindy and Dan. On her
own for several years, she met the love of her life, John Wright. Two
children, Terre and Rick, were born and their family first resided in
Anaheim. They then moved to Golden, Colorado, and finally to Phoenix,
Arizona. In each venue, they owned and operated restaurants.

Barbara lost her husband, John, in 1981, but she and her then teenage
children continued to run the restaurants in Sun City, Arizona. With
her skills, the help of her two youngest children, and her ability to
see the positive in everyone and every situation, she had a very
successful business. When she retired to Lake Havasu City in 1999 to
be closer to her daughter and son-in-law, Terre and Jim Flood, she
landed her dream job of serving the golfers at the courses at London
Bridge for many years. She considered it her social life more than a
job. Sadly, she lost her son, Dan, in 2007.

She loved family vacations to tropical destinations, visiting her
sister and family in San Diego, playing golf, and the miles she walked
the trails of the local state parks with her four-legged friends.

Barbara is survived by two of her daughters, Cindy, North Carolina;
Terre and husband Jim Flood, Lake Havasu City; son Rick Wright, Lake
Havasu City; daughter in-law Heather Wright, Reno, NV and
grandchildren, Jeff, Jeremy, Deanna, Brook, Jimmy, Kim, Christy,
Casey, David and Charles and fifteen great-grandchildren. We must add
Missy, her loving four-legged companion, who looked after her to the
end.

(Arrangements provided by Mohave Memorial Funeral & Cremation)




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