August 13, 1953 ~ August 26, 2022
Donna Lou Wright departed her earthly life on August 26, 2022 at El Reno, Oklahoma. Donna was born August 13, 1953 at Fairview, Oklahoma to Walter A and Betty Lou (Kahn) Pester. She attended Longdale Grade School and went on to graduate in 1971 from Canton High School. She was blessed to be named on the Oklahoma Girls All-State basketball team for the west that year along with teammate Margie Paden. She attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University-Weatherford and received her secretarial certificate in 1973. While at Southwestern she met James David Wright. They were married in 1974 and to this union one daughter, Jaime was born.
They moved quite a bit therefore she worked at various jobs such as for an abstract co., water office, grain elevator office, payroll for a construction co. and a teacher’s aide in several schools. In 1984 she began working part time for Wal-Mart and was a department manager, receiving clerk, and office helper. She retired in 2017 after 33 1/2 years with the company.
She was a lifelong member of the United Methodist Church. She served her Lord in several capacities: the church as committee member, Sunday school teacher, vacation bible school teacher and communion steward. She was blessed to be able to go on one mission trip to Mexico in 1990. Her hobbies were sports, cross-stitching, tending her yard and garden. She loved to travel and had a fondness for the mountains and all of God’s nature. She always said she was so lucky to have grown up near Canton Lake.
Donna is preceded in death by her parents; both sets of grandparents and the father of her daughter. She is survived by her daughter, Jaime of Bethany, OK; two grandsons, Zackary and Seth of Bethany; her brother, Gene Pester and wife Gail of Tuttle, OK and her sister, Debi Bills, of El Reno, OK; niece, Danielle Rickey of Moore, OK as well as many school and Wal-Mart friends and family.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 30, 2022 at the
Longdale Gymnasium with Pastor Sharon Wilbur officiating. Interment will follow
at Longdale Cemetery under the direction of Pierce Funeral Home, Canton.
Memorials may be made to the Oklahoma Children’s Hospital - Jimmy Everest Center
with the funeral home serving as custodian at P.O. Box 36, Canton, OK 73724.
Condolences may be made at
www.piercefuneralhomes.com.