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Harry Josiah Wright Jr.

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Harry Josiah Wright Jr.

Birth
Kentucky, USA
Death
30 May 1992 (aged 83–84)
Graves County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky, USA GPS-Latitude: 36.7498741, Longitude: -88.6356125
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Harry J. Wright Jr.

Harry J. Wright Jr., 84, of Whippoorwill Way, died Saturday at 6:43 p.m. at Heritage Manor Nursing Home.

Mr. Wright was a lifetime and former board member of the First United Methodist Church and was director of Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Co. and First National Bank for many years. He was associated with Marshall Field & Co in North Carolina before owning and operating a Sherman Williams store in Mayfield. Wright was a former board member and charter member of the Kiwanis Club; a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army as a Quartermaster in the European Theatre for three years; and owned and operated the Ben Franklin store in Mayfield.

Survivors include two sons, Benson Rhey Wright, Ft. Collins, Co. and Harry J. Wright III, Ormand Beach, Fla.; a daughter, Jennifer Blackburn, Louisville; a niece, Bebe Shaw, Mayfield; and six grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Virginia Wright; and his parents, Harry J. Sr. and Malona Farthing Wright.

Graveside services will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Maplewood Cemetery with Dr. Cecil Kirk and the Rev. Don Farmer officiating. Entombment will be at the Wright Family Mausoleum in Maplewood.

Pallbearers will be Tom Blackburn, Jim Wright, Eugene Harrell, Don Farmer, David Vowell and Gary McClain.

There will be no visitation. The Byrn Funeral Home of Mayfield was in charge of funeral arrangements. The family requests that expression of sympathy take the form of gifts to the Lourdes Hospice Program of Paducah.

(Mayfield, Kentucky Messenger, Monday, June 1, 1992)
Harry J. Wright Jr.

Harry J. Wright Jr., 84, of Whippoorwill Way, died Saturday at 6:43 p.m. at Heritage Manor Nursing Home.

Mr. Wright was a lifetime and former board member of the First United Methodist Church and was director of Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Co. and First National Bank for many years. He was associated with Marshall Field & Co in North Carolina before owning and operating a Sherman Williams store in Mayfield. Wright was a former board member and charter member of the Kiwanis Club; a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army as a Quartermaster in the European Theatre for three years; and owned and operated the Ben Franklin store in Mayfield.

Survivors include two sons, Benson Rhey Wright, Ft. Collins, Co. and Harry J. Wright III, Ormand Beach, Fla.; a daughter, Jennifer Blackburn, Louisville; a niece, Bebe Shaw, Mayfield; and six grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Virginia Wright; and his parents, Harry J. Sr. and Malona Farthing Wright.

Graveside services will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Maplewood Cemetery with Dr. Cecil Kirk and the Rev. Don Farmer officiating. Entombment will be at the Wright Family Mausoleum in Maplewood.

Pallbearers will be Tom Blackburn, Jim Wright, Eugene Harrell, Don Farmer, David Vowell and Gary McClain.

There will be no visitation. The Byrn Funeral Home of Mayfield was in charge of funeral arrangements. The family requests that expression of sympathy take the form of gifts to the Lourdes Hospice Program of Paducah.

(Mayfield, Kentucky Messenger, Monday, June 1, 1992)


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