APRIL ESTELLE WYRICK April 27, 1981 – Feb. 7, 2019

April Estelle Ray Terrell Wyrick was born on April 27, 1981 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was born alongside her twin sister, Christa, the love of her life.

She spent most of her childhood in Los Alamos, New Mexico, running cross country, swimming, playing ice hockey and snowboarding.

April experienced significant challenges in her early life, but she channeled her grief and pain into a life of serving others. For someone just in her thirties her accomplishments were vast, and included working at an orphanage in Guatemala, in a homeless shelter in Lawrence, Kansas, as a community organizer for ACORN in Kansas City, and on the Obama campaign in 2008. She fought for the rights of SEIU union workers and home care workers in Seattle, and was a powerful voice in the trade unions in Melbourne, Australia.

Above all, she loved her friends and family. She was fiercely loyal, and once you became her friend you were her friend for life. As a testament to this, she leaves friends in Lawrence, Kansas and Kansas City, Arizona, New Mexico, Seattle, Dallas, Denver and Australia – and everywhere that those friends have scattered.

April enjoyed spending time with friends over a beer, hiking, camping, music and traveling. She never met a debate she didn’t like. She was a thorn in the side of authority, and the world was better off for it.

April lives in the memory of her brother, Damion Terrell, and his wife Judi, theirs and Christa’s son Rick, Christa’s daughter Chloe (Charlie), Elaine (Shelly) Joseph, whom she considered her mother, and the dozens of friends who deeply loved her.

Memorials will take place Monday, February 18th at 4pm at Fado Irish Pub in Seattle, on Saturday, March 2nd at 2pm at the Newry in Melbourne, Australia, and on Saturday, March 2nd at 3:30pm at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos. Friends are welcome. In lieu of gifts or flowers, a donation to the American Civil Liberties Union or Planned Parenthood in her name would be welcome.