Joanne Monroe Wright

Joanne Monroe Wright, 68, of Shepherdstown, passed away Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2017, at Berkeley Medical Center.

Born July 8, 1948, in Martinsburg, she is the daughter of the late James Walter Monroe and Hattie Virginia Cooke Monroe.

She had served on Town Council for four years, a member of Neighborhood Watch, and enjoyed knitting and baking pies.

She was a member of First Church of God.

She is survived by her husband, Arnold Wright; three sons, Darren Wright and wife, Kathy, of Gerrardstown, Michael Wright and wife, Lynn, of Shepherdstown, and Jerry Redman and wife, Dianne, of Seneca Rock; one daughter, Marion Wright, of Shepherdstown; 11 grandchildren; five great-

grandchildren; two brothers, Norman Monroe, of Shepherdstown and Clyde Vincent Monroe and wife, Diane, of Bunker Hill; and six sisters, Betty Roberts and Ruth Brown, both of Shepherdstown, Naomi Fisher, Kathy Monroe and Angela Monroe, of Martinsburg, and Melanie Bolden, of Memphis, Tennessee.

Funeral service were held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, March 4, at Asbury United Methodist Church, Shepherdstown, with Pastor Rudolph M. Bropleh and Pastor Douglas A. Campbell officiating. Interment was in Pleasant View Memory Gardens.

Arrangements by Brown Funeral Home.

Online condolences may be offered at www.BrownFuneralHomesWV.com.