Emma Louella Wright

Emma Louella Wright, 91, of La Grande died June 15 at a local care center. A graveside service and celebration of life will begin at 11 a.m. Friday at Abbey View Memorial Park in Brier, Wash.

Mrs. Wright was born Nov. 21, 1913, to Pete and Minnie Hill Edd in Glasgo, Mont. She attended school in Willston, N.D., and married Leland Stroud there. They were later divorced.

In 1945 she married Henry Benter in Seattle. The couple lived in Springfield and Mayville before moving to Baker City where they lived from 1954 to 1961. They lived in La Grande until his death in 1965 when she moved to Seattle to be near her sisters. She married Bill Wright in 1978 in Olympia, Wash., and lived in Bremerton, Wash., until his retirement from the shipyards. They moved to Canton, N.C. He died in 1986. In 1993 she returned to La Grande.

She enjoyed gardening, sewing, cooking, collecting dolls and traveling.

Survivors include children, Donald Stroud of Ketchikan, Alaska, Alice Williamson and Roberta Adlard, both of La Grande, and an adopted son, Richard Benter of Fletcher, N.C.; stepchildren, Rayman Benter and John Benter, both of Crosby, N.D., and Mildred Kjorli of Havre, Mont.; sisters Ruth Trainer, Verna DeWitt, Nyla Wills and Betty Conners, all of Seattle; a brother, Zell Edd of Williston; 10 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

A brother, Jess Edd, and a sister, Edna DeLapp, died earlier.