Obituaries: Mrs. W. K. Wright, 1935, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: August 22, 1935 Winn Parish Enterprise

Last Rites For Mrs. W. K. Wright Held Wednesday

Services Conducted at the First Baptist Church

Mrs. W. K. Wright, 61 year of age, succumbed at her home here Tuesday morning
at 10 o'clock, following a prolonged illness.  Funeral services were conducted
on Wednesday morning at the First Baptist church with the pastor, Dr. B. C.
Land in charge.  He was assisted by Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church.  Interment was made in the Winnfield Cemetery.

Active pallbearers were nephews and a cousin of the deceased.  O. A. Long of
Georgetown; John W. Wright, J. E. Ray, Frank Wright Grigsby, Winnfield; Lendel
White, Selma; and C. O. White, Greenville, S. C.

Honorary pallbearers were Dr. Roy Wright, Dr. J. F. Faith, Dr. F. C. Fittz,
Judge Cas Moss, P. K. Abel, Matt Milam, J. R. Lanier, Bill Halstead, Jim
Carter, Bryant Sholars, Charles Walsworth, S. J. Harper, Mack Branch, Otho
Long, J. M. Russell, Leonard Allen, Charles Walters, B. L. Horton, W. W.
Allen, W. T. Heflin, C. McGinty, B. L. Anderson, L. F. Morrison, Cecil Rowe,
J. M. Hyde, Bill Heard, John Carr, J. G. Pope, and John Teddlie.  

Mrs. Wright was born at Arcadia, La., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
White.  She was known by a host of friends and relatives as "Miss Pinkie".  
She moved with her parents to the Zion Community, Winn Parish, when a young
girl. There she joined the Baptist Church and when she moved to Winnfield some
30-odd years ago she moved her membership to the church here, where she was a
faithful member until her death.

February 8, 1893, she was married to Wade Kelly Wright.  Two children were
adopted and reared by Mr. and Mrs. Wright.  They are J. C. Terrill of
Leesville, and Leonard Brown Wright of Winnfield.  Her husband died April 18,
1928.

Surviving the deceased are her mother, Mrs. A. J. White of Winnfield; two
foster sons, J. C. Terrell, Leesville, La., and Leonard Brown Wright,
Winnfield; four brothers, C. A. White, Selma; W. T. and W. F. White,
Winnfield; and A. B. White, Greeneville, S.C.

Among the out of town relatives and friends who attended the funeral of Mrs.
W. K. Wright here Wednesday were, Mrs. Lela O'Laughlin, W. L. McConathy and
daughter, Vermelle, Mrs. Carrie Terrell Hazen, El Dorado; Mr. and Mrs. Elmo
Frazier and daughter, Longview, Tex., Mr. and Mrs. C. O. White and son, Mr.
and Mrs. A. B. White and daughter, Greenville, S. C., Mr. and Mrs. John Carr
and son, Eros, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Rayburn, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. White, and
Willie Dee White, J. G. Pope, W. E. Gamble, F. M. Dunham, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Brister and son, of Selma, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Long, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Long
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Long, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Morris, Georgetown,
La.,Misses Mary Dee and Charlene White, Pineville, La., Mrs. Bessie Creed and
son of Alexandria, Mr. Claude Ray and mother, Calvin, Mr. and Mrs. O. B.
Register, Bob Davis, Mrs. Sue Davis, and Mr. and Mrs. Head of Monroe, and J.
C. Terrill of Leesville.