Obituaries: 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: May 22, 1947 Winn Parish Enterprise

John W. "Judge" Wright Succumbs To Heart Attack

Funeral services for John W. "Judge" Wright, 45, who died of a heart attack at
Clinton, Louisiana, at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, will be conducted at his home in
Winnfield tomorrow (Friday) at 11 a.m.

Rev. H. H. McBride, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will officiate. 
Burial will be in the Winnfield Cemetery under direction of Southern Funeral
Home.

Pallbearers will be Alonzo Reed, J. W. Teddlie, Houston Gates, Bill Halstead,
A. C. Coorpender, and Frank W. Grigsby.

Mr. Wright, his wife, and a friend, W. B. Breitung, of Clinton, were enroute
to Winnfield from New Orleans and had eaten lunch at Clinton when Jr. Wright
was stricken.  He was carried to a clinic where he succumbed following two
separate heart attacks.

He was born and reared in Winnfield, spending most of his life here.

Surviving are his wife, the former Polly Fowler, of Winnfield; two daughters,
Captain Mary Olive Wright, a WAC, in New York, and Mrs. Dorothy Ann Earle, New
Orleans; his mother, Mrs. Olive Wright of Winnfield; three sisters, Mrs. Frank
Grigsby and Mrs. Jack Ezell of Winnfield, and Mrs. Festus Keefe of St. Louis,
Mo.; two brothers, R. B. Wright and J. F. Wright of Winnfield.