Francis Frank E Wright

Frank E. Wright Frank E. Wright, 82, of Millbury, died February 5, 2012 at Orchard Villa Nursing Home. He was born in Toledo on November 7, 1929. A 1948 graduate of Central Catholic High School, he also attended the University of Toledo, College of Engineering. He served his country in the Korean War , 8th infantry battalion in the Pacific. Frank’s true passion was his family. He also enjoyed fishing, carpentry, and raising fruit trees. A member, and Past Parish President, and past Festival Chairman of St. Jerome's Catholic Church., as well as a Knight of Columbus. He was also the past Treasurer of the Oregon AARP. He married Phyllis C. Schetter on July 28, 1951 and she preceded him in death in 1990. He then married Patty Isakson on January 18, 1992 and she survives. Also surviving are his children: Ann (Thomas) Gomoll, Marsha (James) Depner, Diane (Howard) LaPlante, Frank (Darlene) Wright, Daniel (Brenda) Wright, Sherry (Travis) Jackson, Michael (Jean) Wright, and Gina (Joe) DeJohn, Step – Children: David (Amy) Isakson and Kelly (Michael) Holet, Many Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren, and Sister: Louise Schetter. Family and friends will be received on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 from 2-4 and 6-8 PM . in the Witzler-Shank Funeral Home, 701 N. Main St. Walbridge, Ohio 43465 (419-666-3121) Prayers will be recited in the funeral home on Wednesday at 9:45 A.M. followed by the Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 A.M. at St. Jerome Catholic Church 300 Warner St. Walbridge, with Rev. David Cirata officiating. Burial will follow in Lake Township Cemetery. Those planning an expression of sympathy are asked to consider Hospice of Northwest Ohio, or St. Jerome Catholic Church. Online condolences may be made to www.witzlershankfh.com. TO OUR KIDS AND GRANDKIDS THE STORY OF YOUR GRANDPA WRIGHT David was 11, Daniel was 10 and Lindy was 3 years old, when Grandpa Wright first came into your life. He came attached to the handsome guy I married in 1983. Dad and I had been seeing each other since 1980 and married on September 24,1983. However Grandpa Wright and Grandma Wright was first introduced to you in the early 1980's. The first time they meant you was at Uncle Franks house for his son Robert's first birthday party, he was in a highchair for his 1st birthday celebration. You where all so well behaved at the party dad and I where so proud of all three of you. Beings that they lived in Ohio a distance away we did not see them very often. We continued to date each other and after deciding to get married we decided to invite grandpa and grandma Wright to Michigan to see where we all would be living at 933 Lenawee Street, Adrian, Michigan. That is when all hell broke loose! It seems you kids where determine to give us all a workout and the little imps in you came out to play. Just as they where convinced that dad was marrying a fine family, you had to show them different! Grandpa and Grandma, dad and I decided to take a walk around the neighbor hood to show it to them. We had finished with supper and David and Daniel had gone out to play with their friends (or so we where thinking), Lindy was in the stroller with us, when what to our wondering eyes should appear but a truck with four kids in the back screaming as they went by flapping their arms in the air, wearing only shorts and no shirts, covered in white shaving cream all over their face and bodies acting like wild monkeys. Dad made the comment when he first seen the kids in the truck that thankfully that was not you kids. Grandpa Wright said,' how old are they? You just never know what to expect out of them at that age.' About then the truck come threw again with the kids flopping their arms, laughing,screaming and yelling hi Mom and Dad! After a closer look we seen it was you and was so embarrass, Grandpa and Grandma both laughed and said yep they are normal kids they will fit right in with our family alright. Believe me Dad was a little imp when he was a boy at home too. I remember setting around the family living room at Christmas and all the family was sharing their childhood memories with each other. His brothers and sisters told me how wild he was before we met and they say after he met me he slowed down. Dad told me about how he had decided he was all grown up so he was going to look for work in Phoenix, Arizona. His Mom cried as he left which he said always bothered him but he went anyway. He told me about eating rattle snakes and such, Yuk! His friends and buddies have shared some of his stories with me and I believe them because Dad has got the scars on his back to back the stories up. Someday perhaps I will share more of them with you but this one story he let slip out at Christmas took his Dad by surprise and he stayed mad for a while about it after that, even though it was from when Dad was a teenager. Seems Grandpa and Grandma had left the kids home while they went on a weekend trip. Dad took Grandpa's car out for a little more then a cruise. He ended up wrecking it in a ditch, doing some damage to the mechanics of the car, (ever wonder how Dad got to be such a good mechanic? Because he had to! Ha!! Well he got the car back home and spent the rest of the weekend getting the car in running condition again. Seems he had to skimp due to lack of funds on some of the parts. But none the less he was able to get the car up and running again just moments before Grandpa and Grandma pulled in the drive. Dad said nothing to them and the next time Grandpa drove the car it was acting up. He thought nothing of this and looked in to getting it fixed. Once this was done nothing more was ever said. That is until about 20 years later while the family was setting around the Christmas Tree. He was pretty upset and stated he always had suspected there was something more to why he had car failures back then but never suspected that ! He stayed kinda mad at Dad for a while but eventually got over it. Many times while we where raising you kids you would come home and feed us a line. Dad would later smile at me when we where alone and say ' don't you believe it for a minute Brenda, I know all about what teenage boys get into, they are not fooling me one bit. ' I have been there and done more then that and knew how to hide it! We had many family gatherings over the years and with a family of eight kids in the Wright family, weddings, birthdays. graduations, anniversaries we enjoyed many family times together. Grandpa and Grandma was right, you all fit right in, they both accepted and welcomed all of us into the family from day one. They were happy to have three more grandchildren added to the family. They showered you with gifts at Christmas and Birthdays, something Grandpa continued to do over the years even after we lost Grandma to cancer when she was only 58 years old. Grandpa maintained the family traditions for as long as he could even with gifts to the great grandchildren and as far as I know he continued to mail out birthday cards to each of us even though the family had now grown to near 100 .Grandpa and Grandma would always send out a check to me for Christmas shopping on their behalf for you and your kids. They did that because in their words ' they wanted you to get the gift you most wanted for Christmas and they thought that I would know best what that gift was, So they had me do the shopping '. I always felt part of the family from day one and he was a wonderful grandpa to all his grandchildren no matter what age they were when we joined the Wright family. He was a very special man indeed. He had enough love to go all around to each and everyone of us. The man I married reminds me a lot of him, I know where he got it from. I recall when dad and I got married how I wanted a crystal cake topper for our cake, which was pretty pricey and we could not afford it. Knowing how much I loved crystal, Grandma Wright squeezed some money into dad's hand and said get what you want, I want you both to have it. To this day it sets proudly in our crystal cabinet, two bells with lavender doves, we purchased it at Cedar Point when we went that year. Then I recall how the hall we had rented for our wedding (after we had paid for it , rented it and this was on the day of our wedding (September 24,1983). The hall informed us that we had to be out by 9PM, now our reception started at 6PM! I was so upset because we where suppose to have it until 1AM. The hall informed us on this day they wanted more money to let us keep it till 1AM even though we had already made the deal with them to have the hall until 1AM. I was so mad I refused to pay them anymore. Grandpa and Grandma Wright stepped up and said they would pay for it as they did not want to see our special day spoiled in anyway. They always did what ever they could to keep peace and joy flowing in the family. When we moved from 933 Lenawee Street in Adrian the home you three kids mainly grew up in, then to 1400 Rollin Hwy in Hudson,Michigan where our homestead is today Grandpa and Grandma drove up to Michigan to help us move. Grandma had cooked and put together a lunch that she brought with her on moving day for all of us. Even though she was suffering from cancer and likely did not feel good she did what she could . My memories of her was helping me unload the boxes and polishing and shinning my treasured crystal pieces and putting them in the crystal cabinet for me. We moved here in August 1989 and she died the following year. That was the one and only time Grandma Wright was ever at our home in Hudson, Michigan. But I feel her presents, and her spirit in our home still. Each time I clean my crystal cabinet I remember that special time she gave to me. Her and Dad Wright wanted to be a part of giving us comfort in our new home despite how sick she was. This was the kind of people they both where. Grandpa Wright married a couple years after Grandma Wright had died to another wonderful person named Pat. who had the same sweetness about her and loved all our families as much. Her and Grandpa came up to our house for our 4th of July parties, birthday parties and family gatherings many times. Each of these special moments will always be a part of my memories, they all mean so much to me. Although our visits with Grandpa and Grandma where stretched out and not as often as we would have liked for them to be because of the distance from Michigan to Ohio. We always kept in touch by phone or mail.Grandpa and Grandma would call Dad and I often to keep in touch with our family. They always ask about each of you. When one of you were sick or any other thing out of the ordinary they would always pray for you and call regularly to see how you where doing. To this day when ever anyone in the Wright family has a need or is sick or hurting in any way, the word is put out to the entire family and we all immediately create a family circle of prayer. Each of us receive a mass email about the one in the family that is in need and we all immediately go to prayer creating a family circle of prayer around our loved one in need and we also prayed for that one's family and trials they may face because of the need. This is always done by the entire family group lifting our prayers to God for our loved ones as one voice to God. The saying (the family who prays together stays together), certainly applies here. This was the way Grandpa and Grandma Wright taught us while they where here with us and this is still what the family does today. You mattered to them very much and they loved you. You were on their minds even on their death bed. Both of them had reminded dad and I to take care of you and always keep you in our prayers everyday which we do. Grandma Wright did not get to see the great grand kids but grandpa did and his love for them was just as great. Its truly hard to find real grandpas and he was real. Time has now passed today is January 30,2018. We just visited Grandpa and Grandma Wright's graves and it looked so peaceful. Dad and I have always make it a point to pray for you and your families every day just as they did when they where alive. It is our desire that all of you carry on the tradition of prayer for each of your families and pass that same tradition on down to your children and their children. We are so fortunate to have the heritage of prayer in our families on both sides. I don't know how I would have made it through my life without the power of prayer. We have been fortunate to have good families to guide us threw this life and teach us how to trust and put our faith in God. You all have your own families now and I truly hope you carry these traditions down to your children and their children. If you do not it is you who are accountable for the next generations. What kind of world do you want them to have? It is your responsibility as a parent to help them shape their world. I miss Grandpa and Grandma Wright they where both so kind and gentle. They raised a big family of eight kids and managed to keep their family all together and to this day we still are all together and we all speak as one in prayer to God. That is a compliment to the kind of people that they where. Prayerful, Loving and always had a Smile,with the wisdom from God they raised one big family and they loved their family each and everyone of us. We are so blessed to have them ! This is my tribute to both of them. A Loving Daughter In Law Brenda Wright (Wife of Daniel Lewis Wright)