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Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Cindy Wright
Age: 54
City: Monticello
Funeral Date
11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 30, Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello
Funeral Home
Goettsch Funeral Home
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Cindy Wright
CINDY WRIGHT
Monticello
Cindy Wright, 54, died Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019, at Dubuque Care Initiatives surrounded by her loving family. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 30, at Goettsch Funeral Home in Monticello, where friends may call from
6 to 8 p.m. Thursday. Interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery. Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Camp Courageous.
Surviving are her parents, Carol and John (Hoppy) Wright; her two sisters, Carla (Curt) Morrow, Coggon, and Ronda (Jack) Pope, Pella; a niece, Ryan (Mike) Peters; three nephews, Matt (Amy) and Ben (Taylor) Morrow and Brock Pope; four great-nieces and nephews, Payton, Harrison and Everly Morrow and Leo Peters; and many loving aunts, uncles and cousins.
Cindy Ann Wright was born Jan. 31, 1965, at John McDonald Hospital in Monticello, Iowa. She was the daughter of John and Carol Heeren Wright. Cindy attended Monticello Community Schools and graduated from Iowa City West High School. She then lived at Systems Unlimited in Iowa City for 16 years and worked in different jobs within their system. For 20 years, she lived in Dubuque at ARC and the past year at Care Initiatives.
Cindy loved music, singing and dancing, Halloween and Christmas. She always enjoyed a visit to McDonalds. Her life was about laughter, love and pure joy.
The family would like to thank the staff and ARC , Care Initatives and Hospice of Dubuque and her special caregiver, Lynn, for all the care and concern given to Cindy over her time with them.