Autism Speaks announced today that its co-founder Suzanne Wright died this afternoon, Friday, July 29, at her home in Fairfield, CT. Suzanne, who fought a courageous nine-month battle with pancreatic cancer, was surrounded by her family at the time of her death. She was 69.
An angel on earth, Suzanne Wright, Founder of Autism speaks, whose work honors her son Christian and 70 million others with global partnerships from the UN to the Vatican, new genetic research, and passage of the bipartisan Autism Cares Act with an allocation of 3 billion dollars in research by 2019. And her tireless advocacy had just begun!! Truly angels walk among us and she was one.
Suzanne is survived by her husband of 48 years, her sister Jayne Tobin, her brothers James and Dennis Werner and three children, Catherine Anne, Christopher James, and Maggie Suzanne. A fourth child, Sarah Suzanne, died in infancy. Suzanne is also survived by six grandchildren, Christian, Mattias, Morgan, Maise, Alex and Sloan. Many aspects of her life and work are prominent in Bob Wright’s recent book, “The Wright Stuff.”

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Autism Speaks or the Lustgarten Foundation, which advances pancreatic cancer research.
http://www.autismspeaks.org