Mass of Christian Burial for Florence Wright, age 93, of Lemmon, SD, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Lemmon.  Fr. Tony Grossenburg will officiate with burial to follow in the Greenhill Cemetery in Lemmon.

Visitation will be from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon.

Florence C. Wright was born January 3, 1921 at Lemmon South Dakota to John Havlich and Anna Marie (Robe) Havlich. She attended grade and high school in the Lemmon area. She worked as teenager at the Yellowstone Hotel and later went to work in Rapid City with youth employment where in 1944 she met a red headed airman named Robert (Red) Wright. They were united in marriage on May 10, 1945. To this union three sons were born, Eugene, Dean and David.

Following Red's discharge from the military, they settled at the Havlich farm in 1946, and in 1948 they moved into Lemmon where she was employed at various businesses. Florence worked at the Lemmon Truck Stop for a number of years and from there went to work at Five Counties Hospital and Nursing Home until her retirement.

Florence or "Flocie" to her freinds enjoyed the time she could spend with her grandchildren whether she was scrapbooking, reading or cooking for them or with them. She entered Five counties nursing home in 2002 until her passing there on April 9, 2014.

She is survived by her sons Eugene Wright, Laurel, MT, Dean Wright, Cortez, CO and Dave (MJ) Wright of Lemmon, SD; grandchildren, Robert (Tonya) Wright, Park City MT, William (Sue) Wright Laural, MT, and Cathrine (Danny) McGinnis, Pierre, SD; 6 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Florence was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Robert "Red" Wright; daughter-in law, Margaret Wright; her sister, Josey Cleghorn and an infant brother; her parents John and Anna Havlich; and nieces Joan Apple and Margaret Pastian.