October 24, 1933 - January 20, 2022
The funeral for Carol Ann Poarch Wright, 88 year-old Enid resident is Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 1:00PM in the Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Phillip Gregg officiating.
Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Carol was born in Governor Seay’s mansion in Kingfisher, Oklahoma on October 24, 1933 to parents Weldon Eugene and Hazel Cross Poarch and died Thursday, January 20, 2022 in Greenbrier Nursing Home. At the age of 5 the family moved to Watonga, Oklahoma.
She began school at Cordell Country School where she attended until the third grade. At that time she transferred to the Watonga schools graduating in 1952. She married Ralph Carter in 1951. They lived in Watonga, California, and Enid.
He passed away in 1990. She married Archie Wight in 1993. He passed away in 1998.
She worked several years at St. Mary’s Hospital in data processing. Retiring in 1993. After Archie passed away she moved back to Watonga. She was an office employee at C and L Lumber. She was active in the Watonga Hospital Auxiliary until she moved
To Greenbrier Nursing Home in 2019 due to health problems.
She was preceded in death by her parents, both spouses, son Doug, grandson Joshua, brothers Valgeane, Bob, Charlie, Kenneth, Jimmie and Weldon Eugene Jr., sisters Billie and Patricia.
She is survived by a son Stanley of Enid. Grandson Austin, granddaughter Kassidy and 5 great-grandchildren. One brother, Gerald Poarch of Costa Mesa, California. Sisters, Wilba Koetter of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Eloise Epsy of Watonga,
Jodene Caretr of Covington, Oklahoma and Anita Reeder and husband Tom of Gravois Mills, Missouri, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
The family would like to thank the Staff at Greenbrier Nursing Home for her loving care. Memorials may be made through Henninger-Hinson to the Covington Baptist Church.
Obituaries are posted, in part, due to the generosity of The Commons.
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