Frances Louise (Rinderle) Wright
Marriages
Warren Wright - 1950
Burial Details
Obituaries
The Daily Sentinel page 4B - January 22, 2020
Frances Wright, 87, of Grand
Junction, Colorado, passed
away peacefully at her home on
January 18, 2020.
Frances was born to Aloysuis
Rinderle and Mary (DeMarco)
Rinderle at St. Mary’s Hospital
in Grand Junction, Colorado
on November 29, 1932. She
graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1950, and married
Warren Wright of Whitewater, Colorado.
Frances was a stay-at-home mom to six children and shared
cooking duties with the other women in the mining camps on the
Uncompahgre and in LaSalle, Utah. After her divorce, Frances
moved from Nucla to Whitewater, Colorado, where she raised
her six children. She was a devout Catholic and a member of St.
Joseph’s Catholic Church.
Frances worked at Mesa County Human Services for many years
after completing the business training program at Mesa College in
1969. The “Zipper Guru” was an expert seamstress and mended
many tents and sleeping bags for Eddie Quintana at Gene Taylors,
as well as many other word-of-mouth clients.
Frances’ greatest passions in life were her children, grandchildren,
and great-grandchildren. She enjoyed cooking, fishing, crocheting,
quilting, jigsaw puzzles, reading, crossword puzzles, and watching
the birds out her kitchen windows.
Frances is survived by daughters, Linda Smith of Rock Springs,
WY; Dorothy Lombard of Grand Junction, CO, and Mary (Ben)
Berges of Denver, CO, and sons, Warren (Elaine) Wright Jr. of
Phoenix, AZ; William (Kathleen) Wright of Minneapolis, MN, and
Steve (Sue) Wright Sr. of Grand Junction, CO. She is also survived
by brothers, Leo and Jim Rinderle; sister, Lucille Boothe; 12
grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren. Frances was preceded
in death by both parents; sisters, Lillian Somerville, Mary Tezak,
and Shirley Basford, and sons-in-law, George Smith Sr. and Darryll
Lombard.
There will be a viewing at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary from 4 -
6:00 p.m. on Friday, January 24, 2020. Memorial service will be
held Saturday, January 25, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. at Callahan-Edfast
Mortuary. Interment to follow in the Calvary section of the Orchard
Mesa Cemetery.
