Obituaries: Pinkie Ann White Wright, 1935, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: August 23, 1935 Winnfield News-American

Mrs. Pinkie Wright Is Called By Death Tuesday Morning

Funeral Services Held at First Baptist Church Wednesday A. M.

Mrs. Pinkie Ann Wright, age 61 years, wife of the late Wade Kelly Wright,
passed away at her home here Tuesday morning, August 20, at 10:10 o'clock,
following a serious illness.  Although her death was not unexpected, it came
as a shock to her many relatives and friends here and in other communities in
the parish where she has spent the years of her life.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. B. C. Land, pastor of the Baptist
Church, and Rev. Alwin Stokes, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Wednesday
morning at 10 o'clock at the Baptist Church.  The services were concluded at
the grave where a large concourse of relatives and friends followed the
remains to pay a last tribute to the deceased.  A wealth of beautiful floral
offerings graced her last resting place in the Winnfield Cemetery.

Mrs. Wright was born at Arcadia, La., and while still a child her parents
moved to the Zion community.  While there Mrs. Wright united with the Baptist
Church and was a faithful member for many years when her connection with that
church broken by moving to Winnfield.  Her membership was moved to the local
church where she has been a member the past 30 years.  She was married in 1895
to Wade Kelly Wright.  They had no children of their own but reared two boys,
Clabe Terrill of Leesville, and Leonard Wright of Winnfield, both of whom
survive their foster mother.

Other immediate survivors are the mother of the deceased, Mrs. A. J. White;
and four brothers, C. A. White, Selma; W. T. White, Winnfield,; W. F. White,
Winnfield; and A. B. White, Greenville, S. C.

Active pallbearers were Judge Wright, Winnfield; O. A. Long, Georgetown;
Lyndal White, Selma; Ed Ray, Winnfield; Otto White, Greenville, S. C., and
Frank Wright Grigsby, Winnfield..

Among the honorary pallbearers were the following: P. K. Abel, Walter Allen,
Dr. S. C. Fittz, Bryant Sholars, Dr. J. F. Faith, Roy Wright, Bill Holstead,
John Teddlie, J. T. Heflin, Mack Branch, J. R. Lanier, Matt Milam, S. J.
Harper, Judge Cas Moss, J. E. Carter, A. L. Allen, J. G. Russell, Charles
Walsworth, C. McGinty, B. L. Anderson, L. F. Morrison, Otho Long, J. M. Hyde,
J. G. Pope, B. L. Horton, Cecil Rowe, Jack Ezell, John Carr, and W. E. Heard.

A number of out of town relatives attended the funeral.  Among them were Mrs.
John O'Laughsin, Mrs. Bill Hastings, and W. L. McConathy and daughter, El
Dorado; Mrs. Sue Davis, Mrs. O. B. Register, and Mrs. J. M. Head and son of
Monroe; Mr. and Mrs. A. B. White and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. White and
son of Greenville, S. C., S. N. Morris and family, Mr. and Will Long, Mr. and
Mrs. O. A. Long, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Long, Georgetown; J. G. Pope, Ed Gamble,
and Frank Durham, Selma; and Mrs. L. A. Brister and son, Selma.