"Services for James E. Wright, 88, of St. Anthony who died April 10, 1988, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Salt Lake City following heart surgery, will be conducted Thursday, April 14, at 1:30 p.m. at the St. Anthony LDS 2nd Ward Church by Bishop Rod Chandler.
Friends may call Wednesday from 7-8:30 p.m. at Hansen-Flamm Mortuary in St. Anthony and Thursday from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. at the church. Burial will be in the Wilford Cemetery.
He was born Feb. 16, 1920, in Fal, La., a son of James Barney and Epsie Williamson Wright. He attended schools in Singer, La., and The Williamson settlement in Texas.
During the Depression at the age of 12 he got a job milking cows to help support the family. He then worked for several years at the Civil Conservation Corps camp in Beaumont, Texas. He moved to Bisbee, Ariz. where he worked in the copper mines from 1939 until enlisting in the Navy in 1943.
He drove landing crafts which landed Marines in the Pacific islands during World War II. He came down with appendicitis and was sent back to the states and he finished out his service in Charleston, S.C.
He married Ruth Farrimond Sept. 22, 1940, in Lordsburg, N.M. Their marriage was solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple in 1946.
They moved to St. Anthony in 1946 and stayed because of the hunting and fishing. Through a home study course, he learned the trade of television and radio repair and operated his own business for 20 years until retiring in 1970 because of cancer.
He is survived by his wife of St. Anthony; children Keith K. Wright of Salem, Brian C. Wright of Caldwell, Judy Mitchell of St. Anthony, Teresa Welbourn of Lakewood, Colo., and J'Lene Wasden of Salem; sisters and brothers, Beulah Oldbury, Ophelia Mahana and Cooper Wright, all of Vidor, Texas, Helen May Adolph of Boothville, La., Jerrel Wright of Bisbee, Ariz., and Chester Wright of Provo, Utah; 18 grandchildren and two great-grandsons.
He was preceded in death by His parents and four brothers Carrel Cade Wright, Emmett Leland, Everrett Efford, William Alma.
Friends may call Wednesday from 7-8:30 p.m. at Hansen-Flamm Mortuary in St. Anthony and Thursday from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. at the church. Burial will be in the Wilford Cemetery.
He was born Feb. 16, 1920, in Fal, La., a son of James Barney and Epsie Williamson Wright. He attended schools in Singer, La., and The Williamson settlement in Texas.
During the Depression at the age of 12 he got a job milking cows to help support the family. He then worked for several years at the Civil Conservation Corps camp in Beaumont, Texas. He moved to Bisbee, Ariz. where he worked in the copper mines from 1939 until enlisting in the Navy in 1943.
He drove landing crafts which landed Marines in the Pacific islands during World War II. He came down with appendicitis and was sent back to the states and he finished out his service in Charleston, S.C.
He married Ruth Farrimond Sept. 22, 1940, in Lordsburg, N.M. Their marriage was solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple in 1946.
They moved to St. Anthony in 1946 and stayed because of the hunting and fishing. Through a home study course, he learned the trade of television and radio repair and operated his own business for 20 years until retiring in 1970 because of cancer.
He is survived by his wife of St. Anthony; children Keith K. Wright of Salem, Brian C. Wright of Caldwell, Judy Mitchell of St. Anthony, Teresa Welbourn of Lakewood, Colo., and J'Lene Wasden of Salem; sisters and brothers, Beulah Oldbury, Ophelia Mahana and Cooper Wright, all of Vidor, Texas, Helen May Adolph of Boothville, La., Jerrel Wright of Bisbee, Ariz., and Chester Wright of Provo, Utah; 18 grandchildren and two great-grandsons.
He was preceded in death by His parents and four brothers Carrel Cade Wright, Emmett Leland, Everrett Efford, William Alma.
"Services for James E. Wright, 88, of St. Anthony who died April 10, 1988, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Salt Lake City following heart surgery, will be conducted Thursday, April 14, at 1:30 p.m. at the St. Anthony LDS 2nd Ward Church by Bishop Rod Chandler.
Friends may call Wednesday from 7-8:30 p.m. at Hansen-Flamm Mortuary in St. Anthony and Thursday from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. at the church. Burial will be in the Wilford Cemetery.
He was born Feb. 16, 1920, in Fal, La., a son of James Barney and Epsie Williamson Wright. He attended schools in Singer, La., and The Williamson settlement in Texas.
During the Depression at the age of 12 he got a job milking cows to help support the family. He then worked for several years at the Civil Conservation Corps camp in Beaumont, Texas. He moved to Bisbee, Ariz. where he worked in the copper mines from 1939 until enlisting in the Navy in 1943.
He drove landing crafts which landed Marines in the Pacific islands during World War II. He came down with appendicitis and was sent back to the states and he finished out his service in Charleston, S.C.
He married Ruth Farrimond Sept. 22, 1940, in Lordsburg, N.M. Their marriage was solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple in 1946.
They moved to St. Anthony in 1946 and stayed because of the hunting and fishing. Through a home study course, he learned the trade of television and radio repair and operated his own business for 20 years until retiring in 1970 because of cancer.
He is survived by his wife of St. Anthony; children Keith K. Wright of Salem, Brian C. Wright of Caldwell, Judy Mitchell of St. Anthony, Teresa Welbourn of Lakewood, Colo., and J'Lene Wasden of Salem; sisters and brothers, Beulah Oldbury, Ophelia Mahana and Cooper Wright, all of Vidor, Texas, Helen May Adolph of Boothville, La., Jerrel Wright of Bisbee, Ariz., and Chester Wright of Provo, Utah; 18 grandchildren and two great-grandsons.
He was preceded in death by His parents and four brothers Carrel Cade Wright, Emmett Leland, Everrett Efford, William Alma.
Friends may call Wednesday from 7-8:30 p.m. at Hansen-Flamm Mortuary in St. Anthony and Thursday from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. at the church. Burial will be in the Wilford Cemetery.
He was born Feb. 16, 1920, in Fal, La., a son of James Barney and Epsie Williamson Wright. He attended schools in Singer, La., and The Williamson settlement in Texas.
During the Depression at the age of 12 he got a job milking cows to help support the family. He then worked for several years at the Civil Conservation Corps camp in Beaumont, Texas. He moved to Bisbee, Ariz. where he worked in the copper mines from 1939 until enlisting in the Navy in 1943.
He drove landing crafts which landed Marines in the Pacific islands during World War II. He came down with appendicitis and was sent back to the states and he finished out his service in Charleston, S.C.
He married Ruth Farrimond Sept. 22, 1940, in Lordsburg, N.M. Their marriage was solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple in 1946.
They moved to St. Anthony in 1946 and stayed because of the hunting and fishing. Through a home study course, he learned the trade of television and radio repair and operated his own business for 20 years until retiring in 1970 because of cancer.
He is survived by his wife of St. Anthony; children Keith K. Wright of Salem, Brian C. Wright of Caldwell, Judy Mitchell of St. Anthony, Teresa Welbourn of Lakewood, Colo., and J'Lene Wasden of Salem; sisters and brothers, Beulah Oldbury, Ophelia Mahana and Cooper Wright, all of Vidor, Texas, Helen May Adolph of Boothville, La., Jerrel Wright of Bisbee, Ariz., and Chester Wright of Provo, Utah; 18 grandchildren and two great-grandsons.
He was preceded in death by His parents and four brothers Carrel Cade Wright, Emmett Leland, Everrett Efford, William Alma.
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