Nesta Wright

Nesta Wright, who was Father Michael’s mother, passed away on December 13th, just a week before her 102nd birthday. Mrs. Wright had a long association with Oxford, having spent part of her girlhood in Radley, where her father’s family, the Westons, came from. She went to school in London and well remembered being taken as a girl to the funeral of King Edward in 1910 from which she had a clear recollection of seeing the Kaiser in the procession. On the occasion of her 100th birthday, Radio Oxford asked her which was the most enjoyable decade of her life. She unhesitatingly replied: “the dancing Twenties!”. Her last outings, the week before she died, were to the Jericho Rejects Christmas Party at the school, and the Advent Carol Service in the Church, both of which she thoroughly enjoyed. Our sympathies to Father Michael.