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Priscilla Wright
PRISCILLA WRIGHT
Iowa City
Priscilla Wright died peacefully at her home in Iowa City on Monday, June 2, 2014. A gathering of family and friends will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 11, at Legacy Senior Living Community Center in Iowa City to share and remember Priscilla.
Online condolences may be sent for her family through the Web at www. gayandciha.com.
Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service is assisting her family in her arrangements.
Following her wishes, her body has been donated to the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa for medical research. When studies are completed her cremains will be interred and she will be memorialized at the annual ceremony held by the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Oakland Cemetery.
Priscilla Ann Porter was born Nov. 25, 1929, to Homer and Edith Porter of West Chester, Iowa. She attended West Chester Consolidated School for 12 years and graduated from the University of Iowa in 1951, with a degree in economics. She married Roy Wright in 1952 and they had two children, Jennifer and David. They lived and worked in various locations in Illinois until 1979, when the marriage ended and she returned to Iowa. She worked for 15 years in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
In her retirement years she enjoyed traveling, gardening and making quilts, many of which are enjoyed throughout Iowa as a result of her donations with The Old Capitol Quilters Guild.
She is survived by her son, David and his wife, Dorothy, and their children, Aaron and Kelly, of Pflugerville, Texas; granddaughters, Bethany Landeck (Captain, U.S. Army) and Amanda Van Stavern of Ohio.
Priscilla was predeceased by her companion and partner of many years, Ted Rittenmeyer; daughter, Jennifer, in 2002; her parents; brother, Clifford Porter and wife Winnie of West Chester; and sister, Janet Renoux of Marshalltown.
Priscilla would have wanted to express deep appreciation for all of her friends and the staff at the Legacy Senior Living Community in Iowa City as well as the entire Rittenmeyer extended family.
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