Obit of John W. "Judge" Wright, 1947, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the May 23, 1947 Winnfield News-American

John W. "Judge" Wright Dies Following Heart Attack at Clinton


Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 11 a.m. for John W. "Judge"
Wright, 45, who died in a Clinton, La., clinic at 2 p.m. Wednesday following a
heart attack.  Services will be held at the Wright residence at 602 East South
Street with Rev. H. H. McBride, pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Winnfield, officiating, and interment will be in the Winnfield Cemetery under
the direction of Southern Funeral Home.

When stricken the deceased was returning to Winnfield from New Orleans with
his wife, operator of a beauty parlor here, who had attended a beauty
operators' convention there.

Besides his wife, the former Miss Polly Fowler, he is survived by two
daughters, Mary Olive Wright of New York City and Mrs. Hal C. Earle, Jr., New
Orleans; his mother, 
Mrs. Olive Wright, of Winnfield; three sisters, Mrs. Frank Grigsby and Mrs.
Jack Ezell of Winnfield and Mrs. F. W. Keefe of St. Louis, Mo., and two
brothers, Bowman Wright and James Fount Wright of Winnfield.

(Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)