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Wright, 67 of Tipton, died at 11:52 p.m. on Sunday, July 23, 2017 at her residence.  She was born in Elwood, Indiana on March 30, 1950 to Lewis & Dora (Brown) Walker.  On July 16, 1970 she married Carl L. Wright and he survives.Donna was a floral designer and a member of Church of Christ in Tipton.  She was involved in organizational aspects of Special Olympics and did youth fund raising activities.  Donna was also a substitute elementary teacher.She is survived by her husband of 47 years, Carl; her parents, Lewis and Dora Walker, Tipton; three sons, Tim Wright and wife Kristi, Arcadia, Chris Wright, Sharpsville, and Zach Wright, Tipton; grandchildren, Bethany Sparling, Cody Wright, Cameron Wright, Kendra Wright, Wesley Fruth, Zoe Wright, and Addyleigh Fruth.Funeral services for Donna will be at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 26 at Young-Nichols Funeral Home with Pastor John Ankrom presiding.  Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery, Tipton.  Visitation will be on Wednesday starting at 12:00 Noon until the time of the service.Memorial contributions may be made to the Special Olympics, 6200 Technology Center Drive, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46278.

She was born on December 15, 1933 to Dale and Mary Wheatley Burget.She graduated from Prairie High School in 1951 and from Ball State University and Ball Memorial in 1954. Madonna worked at Tipton County Memorial Hospital as a surgery nurse for a year and then enrolled at Johnson Bible College, graduating in 1959 Magna Cum Laude.While attending Johnson she became involved with the Africa for Christ mission group. She became interested in going to Africa and had learned she would need midwife training. After JBC she went to work at the Frontier School of Midwifery in Hyden, Kentucky and worked in the hospital there until there was an opening for her Midwife training. She began her training in December of 1959, completing it in May of 1960. On August 1, 1960 she left for Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, Africa.Madonna was in Africa for 10 years and then went to Kulpahar, India to work with a Children’s Orphanage and opened a hospital for women. In August of 1984 she felt led to go to Honduras. She served first in the Merendon Mountains. While there she had a clinic built with the help of her supporters here in the States.In November of 1986 she started corresponding with John Spratt and the result of this was their marriage in October of 1987 at Johnson Bible College. They later moved from the mountains to Las Brisas where they built a house, clinic and Church. John passed away in January of 2016 and Madonna also had health problems so she turned the Mission work over to the Disciple Makers in January of 2017.Survivors include a sister, Marilyn B. Nash of Tipton County, niece Shari Smith, nephew Doug Atchley, great niece Abbie Smith (Nate) Stout and children Matilda and Jack of Kokomo, great niece Madison (Joshua) DePew and children Raylee and Asher of Lafayette, Walker Mehl of Charlotte, NC, Kaleigh Atchley of Bunker Hill, step niece Lisa (Rick) Miller and children Colton, Cody and Caitlyn of Peru, step niece Melissa (Steve) Solomon and children Kellen and Kacy of Xenia, Ohio and step...

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